SB2023011881 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Satellite 6.12 



SB2023011881 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Satellite 6.12

Published: January 18, 2023 Updated: March 25, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2023011881
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32224)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data in columns in active records. A remote privileged user write access to the database (e.g. via the restore pipeline) can create a specially crafted column and execute arbitrary code on the system during backup restoration.


2) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-42889)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to an insecure variable interpolation when processing untrusted input. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted input and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Note, the vulnerability was dubbed Text4shell.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.