SB2024091942 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
Published: September 19, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-7387)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges within the container.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences in openshift/builder. A remote user can send a specially crafted HTTP request and escalate their permissions on the node running the container.
2) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45496)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improperly imposed security restrictions during the build initialization step. A remote user can provide a crafted .gitconfig file containing commands executed during the cloning process, leading to arbitrary command execution on the worker node.
3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-28180)
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 decompressing JWE with Decrypt or DecryptMulti. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
4) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38428)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation of URL when parsing strings with semicolons within the scheme_leading_string() function in url.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted URL to the application and influence its behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.