Important: Red Hat OpenShift GitOps security update

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.7.

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

Security Fix(es):

• goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be (CVE-2021-4238)
• go-yaml: Improve heuristics preventing CPU/memory abuse by parsing malicious or large YAML documents (CVE-2022-3064)
• ArgoCD: Users with any cluster secret update access may update out-of-bounds cluster secrets (CVE-2023-23947)

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 GitOps 1.7 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift GitOps for IBM Power, little endian 1.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift GitOps for IBM Z and LinuxONE 1.7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2156729 - CVE-2021-4238 goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be
• BZ - 2163037 - CVE-2022-3064 go-yaml: Improve heuristics preventing CPU/memory abuse by parsing malicious or large YAML documents
• BZ - 2167819 - CVE-2023-23947 ArgoCD: Users with any cluster secret update access may update out-of-bounds cluster secrets

CVEs

• CVE-2021-4238
• CVE-2022-3064
• CVE-2022-23521
• CVE-2022-40303
• CVE-2022-40304
• CVE-2022-41903
• CVE-2022-47629
• CVE-2023-23947

References

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