SB2024061913 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15



SB2024061913 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15

Published: June 19, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024061913
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 5
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

High 20% Medium 80%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45288)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient limitations placed on the amount of CONTINUATION frames that can be sent within a single HTTP/2 stream. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP/2 requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-49568)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling responses from a Git server. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


3) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4369)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output by the application within internal image registry operator. The AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET can be exposed through an environment variable defined in the pod definition, but is limited to Azure environments. A remote user controlling an account that has high enough permissions to obtain pod information from the openshift-image-registry namespace can use this obtained client secret to perform actions as the registry operator's Azure service account.


4) Link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5154)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to the malicious container creates symlink "mtab" on the host External. A remote attacker can gain elevated privileges on the system.


5) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-28182)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to reading the unbounded number of HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frames. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.