QID 770039

Date Published: 2021-06-21

QID 770039: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.1 Package Security Update (RHSA-2020:4297)

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

Security Fix(es):
jenkins-jira-plugin: plugin information disclosure (CVE-2019-16541)
jenkins-2-plugins/mailer: Missing hostname validation in Mailer Plugin could result in MITM (CVE-2020-2252)
jenkins-2-plugins/blueocean: Path traversal vulnerability in Blue Ocean Plugin could allow to read arbitrary files (CVE-2020-2254)
jenkins-2-plugins/blueocean: Blue Ocean Plugin does not perform permission checks in several HTTP endpoints implementing connection tests. (CVE-2020-2255)
kubernetes: Docker config secrets leaked when file is malformed and loglevel >= 4 (CVE-2020-8564)
golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)
podman: environment variables leak between containers when started via Varlink or Docker-compatible REST API (CVE-2020-14370)
golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs (CVE-2020-16845)

Affected Products:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 for RHEL 8 x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 for RHEL 7 x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.6 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.6 for RHEL 8 s390x

A successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute an arbitrary code on the system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.9 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • Solution

    Customers are advised to upgrade to the latest patch level. Please refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2020:4297 to address this issue.

    Vendor References
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2020:4297 Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4297?language=en