RHEL 5 : Red Hat Network Satellite server spacewalk-java (RHSA-2011:0879)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63982

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat Network Satellite server spacewalk-java.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0879 advisory.

Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite provides a solution to organizations requiring absolute control over and privacy of the maintenance and package deployment of their servers. It allows organizations to utilize the benefits of the Red Hat Network without having to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems.

It was found that RHN Satellite did not protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. If an authenticated RHN Satellite user visited a specially-crafted web page, it could lead to unauthorized command execution with the privileges of that user, for example, creating a new user account, granting administrator privileges to user accounts, disabling the account of the current user, and so on. (CVE-2009-4139)

Red Hat would like to thank Christian Johansson of Bitsec AB and Thomas Biege of the SUSE Security Team for independently reporting this issue.

Users of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.1 are advised to upgrade to these updated spacewalk-java packages, which resolve this issue. For this update to take effect, Red Hat Network Satellite must be restarted. Refer to the Solution section for details.

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 Red Hat Network Satellite server spacewalk-java package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:0879.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63982

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0879.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 6/3/2024

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-4139

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:spacewalk-java-oracle, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-taskomatic, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-lib

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4139

CWE: 352

RHSA: 2011:0879

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