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RHEL 9 : webkit2gtk3 (RHSA-2024:10472)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211913

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for webkit2gtk3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10472 advisory.

 WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform.

 Security Fix(es):

 * webkitgtk: data isolation bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-44309)

 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 webkit2gtk3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:10472.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2327927

http://www.nessus.org/u?8d23370a

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10472

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211913

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-10472.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/27/2024

Updated: 11/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-44309

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel

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: 11/27/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 12/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-44309

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2024:10472