Critical: redhat-certification security update

Synopsis

Critical: redhat-certification security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

An update for redhat-certification is now available for Red Hat Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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

The redhat-certification package provides partners with a unified web-based user interface to certify their products for use on Red Hat Infrastructure. It can currently be used in the latest releases of Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider Certification, Red Hat OpenStack Certification and Red Hat Hardware Certification Programs.

Security Fix(es):

  • redhat-certification: rhcertStore.py:__saveResultsFile allows to write any file (CVE-2018-10870)
  • redhat-certification: /download allows to download any file (CVE-2018-10869)
  • redhat-certification: resource consumption in DocumentBase:loadFiltered (CVE-2018-10864)

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

These issues were discovered by Riccardo Schirone (Red Hat Product Security).

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 Certification (for RHEL Server) 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Certification (for RHEL Server) 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Certification (for RHEL Server) 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Certification (for RHEL Server) 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Certification (for RHEL Server) 7 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1593627 - CVE-2018-10864 redhat-certification: resource consumption in DocumentBase:loadFiltered
  • BZ - 1593780 - CVE-2018-10869 redhat-certification: /download allows to download any file
  • BZ - 1593803 - CVE-2018-10870 redhat-certification: rhcertStore.py:__saveResultsFile allows to write any file

CVEs

References