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RHEL 8 : fence-agents (RHSA-2024:2968)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 197751

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for fence-agents.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2968 advisory.

 The fence-agents packages provide a collection of scripts for handling remote power management for cluster devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.

 Security Fix(es):

 * urllib3: Request body not stripped after redirect from 303 status changes request method to GET (CVE-2023-45803)

 * pycryptodome: side-channel leakage for OAEP decryption in PyCryptodome and pycryptodomex (CVE-2023-52323)

 * jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter (CVE-2024-22195)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL fence-agents package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2968.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

http://www.nessus.org/u?99ff6172

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246840

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257028

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257854

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-14343

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-5397

http://www.nessus.org/u?d3c4b1fa

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2968

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 197751

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2968.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2024

Updated: 5/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-22195

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-cisco-ucs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-drac5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-bladecenter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-ilo-ssh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-wti, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-compute, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-rsb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-scsi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-ipmilan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-eaton-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-openstack, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-ilo2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-intelmodular, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-ilo-moonshot, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-kdump, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-ibmblade, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-ibm-vpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-eps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-kubevirt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-ipdu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-emerson, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-all, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-apc-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-zvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-rhevm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-ifmib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-mpath, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-aws, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-gce, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-virsh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-redfish, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-amt-ws, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-brocade, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-lpar, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-vmware-rest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-azure-arm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-hpblade, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-ilo-mp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-aliyun, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-vmware-soap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-apc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-heuristics-ping, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-ibm-powervs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-sbd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-cisco-mds, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fence-agents-rsa

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45803, CVE-2023-52323, CVE-2024-22195

CWE: 200, 203, 79

RHSA: 2024:2968