RHEL 8 : fence-agents (RHSA-2024:8168)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209114

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for fence-agents.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8168 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):

* pypa/setuptools: Remote code execution via download functions in the package_index module in pypa/setuptools (CVE-2024-6345)

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.

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

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 RHEL fence-agents package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:8168.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297771

http://www.nessus.org/u?4f7e1daa

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8168

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 209114

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-8168.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/16/2024

Updated: 10/16/2024

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6345

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8, 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, 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: 10/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6345

CWE: 94

RHSA: 2024:8168