AlmaLinux 9 : fence-agents (ALSA-2025:0308)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214227

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:0308 advisory.

* fence-agents: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through indirect reference to format method [almalinux-9.5.z] (CVE-2024-56326)
* fence-agents: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames [almalinux-9.5.z] (CVE-2024-56201)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0308

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-0308.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214227

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-0308.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/15/2025

Updated: 1/15/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-56326

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-56201

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Threat Score: 2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-agents-common, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-agents-compute, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-agents-virsh, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-virt, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-virtd, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-virtd-libvirt, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-virtd-multicast, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-virtd-serial, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-virtd-tcp, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-virtd-cpg, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-agents-ibm-powervs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-agents-ibm-vpc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fence-agents-kubevirt, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-56201, CVE-2024-56326

CWE: 1336, 150, 693

RHSA: 2025:0308