QID 239473

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computingKubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or privatecloud deployments.This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift ContainerPlatform 4.5.41. See the following advisory for the container images forthis release:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2430

Security Fix(es): jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: Does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE)
attacks. (CVE-2021-21642) jetty: local temporary directory hijacking vulnerability (CVE-2020-27216) jetty: buffer not correctly recycled in Gzip Request inflation (CVE-2020-27218) jetty: request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of "quality" parameters may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-27223) jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: Does not correctly perform permission checks in several HTTP endpoints. (CVE-2021-21643) jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: does not require POST requests for an HTTP endpoint, resulting in a cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
vulnerability. (CVE-2021-21644) jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: Does not perform permission checks in several HTTP endpoints. (CVE-2021-21645)

Affected Products:

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5 for RHEL 8 x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5 for RHEL 7 x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.5 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.5 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.5 for RHEL 8 s390x
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.5 for RHEL 7 s390x

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On successful exploitation, it could allow an attacker to execute code.