Moderate: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh openshift-istio-kiali-rhel7-operator-container security update

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh openshift-istio-kiali-rhel7-operator-container security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for openshift-istio-kiali-rhel7-operator-container is now available for Openshift Service Mesh 1.0 and 1.1.

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 Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation.

Security Fix(es):

• openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel7-operator: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges (CVE-2020-1704)
  

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 details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1793305 - CVE-2020-1704 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel7-operator: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges

CVEs

• CVE-2020-1704

References

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