RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.10 (RHSA-2024:1892)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194911

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing a security update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.10.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1892 advisory.

- An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames. Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes, no memory is allocated to store the excess headers, but they are still parsed. This permits an attacker to cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data, all associated with a request which is going to be rejected. These headers can include Huffman-encoded data which is significantly more expensive for the receiver to decode than for an attacker to send. The fix sets a limit on the amount of excess header frames we will process before closing a connection. (CVE-2023-45288)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHCOS OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.10 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:1892.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45288

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1892

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194911

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2024-1892.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/2/2024

Updated: 5/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45288

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-hyperkube, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8:coreos, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9:coreos

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45288

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2024:1892