Moderate: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.5.1 security updates and bug fixes

Topic

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.5.1 General
Availability release images, which fix security issues and bugs.

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 links in the References section.

Description

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.5.1 images

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes provides the
capabilities to address common challenges that administrators and site
reliability engineers face as they work across a range of public and
private cloud environments. Clusters and applications are all visible and
managed from a single console—with security policy built in.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat Advanced Cluster
Management for Kubernetes, which fix several bugs. See the following
Release Notes documentation, which will be updated shortly for this
release, for additional details about this release:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_advanced_cluster_management_for_kubernetes/2.5/html/release_notes/

Security update:

• nats-server: misusing the "dynamically provisioned sandbox accounts" feature authenticated user can obtain the privileges of the System account (CVE-2022-24450)

Bug fixes:

• Can't install submariner add-ons from UI on unsupported cloud provider (BZ# 2087686)
• policy controller addons are Progressing status (unhealthy from backend) on OCP3.11 in ARM hub (BZ# 2088270)
• RHACM 2.5.1 images (BZ# 2090802)
• Broken link to Submariner manual install instructions (BZ# 2095333)
• `The backend service is unavailable` when accessing ACM 2.5 Overview page (BZ# 2096389)
• 64 character length causing clusters to unsubscribe (BZ# 2101453)

Solution

For Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, see the following
documentation, which will be updated shortly for this release, for important
instructions on installing this release:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_advanced_cluster_management_for_kubernetes/2.5/html-single/install/index#installing

Affected Products

• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2052573 - CVE-2022-24450 nats-server: misusing the "dynamically provisioned sandbox accounts" feature authenticated user can obtain the privileges of the System account
• BZ - 2087686 - Can't install submariner add-ons from UI on unsupported cloud provider
• BZ - 2088270 - policy controller addons are Progressing status (unhealthy from backend) on OCP3.11 in ARM hub
• BZ - 2090802 - RHACM 2.5.1 images
• BZ - 2095333 - Broken link to Submariner manual install instructions
• BZ - 2096389 - `The backend service is unavailable` when accessing ACM 2.5 Overview page
• BZ - 2101453 - 64 character length causing clusters to unsubscribe

CVEs

• CVE-2020-28915
• CVE-2021-3695
• CVE-2021-3696
• CVE-2021-3697
• CVE-2021-40528
• CVE-2022-1271
• CVE-2022-1621
• CVE-2022-1629
• CVE-2022-22576
• CVE-2022-24450
• CVE-2022-25313
• CVE-2022-25314
• CVE-2022-27666
• CVE-2022-27774
• CVE-2022-27776
• CVE-2022-27782
• CVE-2022-28733
• CVE-2022-28734
• CVE-2022-28735
• CVE-2022-28736
• CVE-2022-28737
• CVE-2022-29824

References

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