QID 239919

Date Published: 2021-12-09

QID 239919: Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.9 (RHSA-2021:4833)

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.9. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4834

Security Fix(es): jenkins-2-plugins/subversion: does not restrict the name of a file when looking up a subversion key (CVE-2021-21698)
jenkins: FilePath#mkdirs does not check permission to create parent directories (CVE-2021-21685)
jenkins: File path filters do not canonicalize paths, allowing operations to follow symbolic links to outside allowed directories (CVE-2021-21686)
jenkins: FilePath#untar does not check permission to create symbolic links when unarchiving a symbolic link (CVE-2021-21687)
jenkins: FilePath#reading(FileVisitor)
does not reject any operations allowing users to have unrestricted read access (CVE-2021-21688)
jenkins: FilePath#unzip and FilePath#untar were not subject to any access control (CVE-2021-21689)
jenkins: Agent processes are able to completely bypass file path filtering by wrapping the file operation in an agent file path (CVE-2021-21690)
jenkins: Creating symbolic links is possible without the symlink permission (CVE-2021-21691)
jenkins: The operations FilePath#renameTo and FilePath#moveAllChildrenTo only check read permission on the source path (CVE-2021-21692)
jenkins: When creating temporary files, permission to create files is only checked after they have been created. (CVE-2021-21693)
jenkins: FilePath#toURI, FilePath#hasSymlink, FilePath#absolutize, FilePath#isDescendant, and FilePath#get*DiskSpace do not check any permissions (CVE-2021-21694)
jenkins: FilePath#listFiles lists files outside directories with agent read access when following symbolic links. (CVE-2021-21695)

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

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest packages which contain a patch. Refer to Applying Package Updates to RHEL system for details.

    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2021:4833 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:4833 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4833?language=en
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