Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.5 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.5 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for openshift-enterprise-apb-base-container, openshift-enterprise-mariadb-apb, openshift-enterprise-mysql-apb, and openshift-enterprise-postgresql-apb is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.

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/mariadb-apb: /etc/passwd was given incorrect privileges (CVE-2019-19346)
  
• openshift/apb-base: /etc/passwd was given incorrect privileges (CVE-2019-19348)
  
• openshift/postgresql-apb: /etc/passwd was given incorrect privileges (CVE-2020-1707)
  
• openshift/mysql-apb: /etc/passwd was 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 4.3 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for release 4.3.5, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.3/release_notes/ocp-4-3-release-notes.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 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 - 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-2019-16865
• CVE-2019-19346
• CVE-2019-19348
• CVE-2020-1707
• CVE-2020-1708
• CVE-2020-5312

References

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