RHEL 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.7 (RHSA-2024:10520)

high Nessus Plugin ID 212041

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.7.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10520 advisory.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

Red Hat build of MicroShift is Red Hat's light-weight Kubernetes orchestration solution designed for edge device deployments and is built from the edge capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
MicroShift is an application that is deployed on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux devices at the edge, providing an efficient way to operate single-node clusters in these low-resource environments.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat build of MicroShift 4.17.7. Read the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10518

All Red Hat build of MicroShift 4.17 users are advised to use these updated packages and images when they are available in the RPM repository.

Security Fix(es):

* runc: file descriptor leak (CVE-2024-21626)

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 OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.7 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:10520.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 212041

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-10520.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/3/2024

Updated: 12/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21626

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-networking, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-release-info, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-greenboot, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-olm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-olm-release-info, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-multus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-multus-release-info, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-low-latency

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: 12/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (runc (docker) File Descriptor Leak Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21626

CWE: 200

RHSA: 2024:10520

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