RHSA-2020:0617 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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):

• openshift/mediawiki-apb: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges (CVE-2019-19345)
• openshift/mariadb-apb: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges (CVE-2019-19346)
• openshift/apb-base: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges (CVE-2019-19348)
• openshift/postgresql-apb: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges (CVE-2020-1707)
• openshift/mysql-apb: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges (CVE-2020-1708)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 see the following documentation, which
will be updated shortly for release 4.2, for important instructions on
how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata
update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.2/release_notes/ocp-4-2-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.2/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1793286 - CVE-2019-19348 openshift/apb-base: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges
• BZ - 1793289 - CVE-2019-19346 openshift/mariadb-apb: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges
• BZ - 1793296 - CVE-2019-19345 openshift/mediawiki-apb: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges
• BZ - 1793299 - CVE-2020-1708 openshift/mysql-apb: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges
• BZ - 1793301 - CVE-2020-1707 openshift/postgresql-apb: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges

CVEs

• CVE-2019-19345
• CVE-2019-19346
• CVE-2019-19348
• CVE-2020-1707
• CVE-2020-1708

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate