SB2021110313 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization



SB2021110313 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Published: November 3, 2021 Updated: October 19, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2021110313
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 13
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

High 8% Medium 85% Low 8%
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
  • Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 13 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33195)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of data passed from DNS lookups. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted DNS reqponse and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


2) Missing Authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33197)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authorization process.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in some configurations of ReverseProxy (from net/http/httputil). A remote attacker can drop arbitrary headers and bypass authorization process. 


3) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-31525)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a DoS attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion when processing HTTP headers. A remote attacker can send a large header to ReadRequest or ReadResponse and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


4) Improper Validation of Array Index (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3121)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of index array in plugin/unmarshal/unmarshal.go. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and bypass implemented security restrictions, possibly leading to remote code execution.


5) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-34558)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper certificate verification in crypto/tls package in Go when processing X.509 certificates. The application does not properly assert that the type of public key in an X.509 certificate matches the expected type when doing a RSA based key exchange, allowing a malicious TLS server to cause a TLS client to panic.


6) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33198)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when handling a large exponent to the math/big.Rat SetString or UnmarshalText method.  A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


7) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-25648)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

A flaw was found in the way NSS handled CCS (ChangeCipherSpec) messages in TLS 1.3. This flaw allows a remote attacker to send multiple CCS messages, causing a denial of service for servers compiled with the NSS library. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects NSS versions before 3.58.


8) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3653)

The vulnerability allows a malicious guest to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improperly imposed security restrictions within the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB (virtual machine control block) provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest (L2). Due to improper validation of the "int_ctl" field, this issue could allow a malicious L1 to enable AVIC support (Advanced Virtual Interrupt Controller) for the L2 guest.

As a result, the L2 guest would be allowed to read/write physical pages of the host, resulting in a crash of the entire system, leak of sensitive data or potential guest-to-host escape.


9) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-22922)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted XML code to the affected application and view contents of arbitrary files on the system or initiate requests to external systems.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to view contents of arbitrary file on the server or perform network scanning of internal and external infrastructure.


10) Insufficiently protected credentials (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-22923)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficiently protected credentials. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information on the target system.


11) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-22924)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to errors in the logic when the config matching function does not take "issuer cert" into account and it compares the involved paths case insensitively. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information on the system.


12) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36222)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in kdc/kdc_preauth_ec.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5). A remote attacker can send a request containing a PA-ENCRYPTED-CHALLENGE padata element without using FAST and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


13) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-37750)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in kdc/do_tgs_req.c. A remote user can pass specially crafted data via the FAST inner body that lacks a server field, trigger a NULL pointer dereference error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.