QID 770105

QID 770105: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 Security Update (RHSA-2021-0038)

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-2-plugins/subversion: xml parser is not preventing xml external entity (xxe) attacks (cve-2020-2304)
  • jenkins-2-plugins/mercurial: xml parser is not preventing xml external entity (xxe) attacks (cve-2020-2305)
  • jenkins-2-plugins/mercurial: missing permission check in an http endpoint could result in information disclosure (cve-2020-2306)
  • jenkins-2-plugins/kubernetes: jenkins controller environment variables are accessible in kubernetes plugin (cve-2020-2307)
  • jenkins-2-plugins/kubernetes: missing permission check in kubernetes plugin allows listing pod templates (cve-2020-2308)
  • jenkins-2-plugins/kubernetes: missing permission check in kubernetes plugin allows enumerating credentials ids (cve-2020-2309)
  • golang: math/big: panic during recursive division of very large numbers (cve-2020-28362)

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



Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

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

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4 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-2021:0038 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:0038 Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0038