SB2023120624 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers 6.0



SB2023120624 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers 6.0

Published: December 6, 2023 Updated: December 6, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2023120624
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

High 33% Medium 67%
  • Low
  • Medium
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-44487)

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

The vulnerability exists due to improperly control of consumption for internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests with compressed HEADERS frames. A remote attacker can send a sequence of compressed HEADERS frames followed by RST_STREAM frames and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack, a.k.a. "Rapid Reset".

Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-39325)

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

The vulnerability exists due to excessive consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can bypass the http2.Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting by creating new connections while the current connections are still being processed, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


3) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5528)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions. A remote user with ability to create pods and persistent volumes on Windows nodes can obtain admin privileges on those nodes.

The vulnerability affects Kubernetes clusters only, if they are using an in-tree storage plugin for Windows nodes.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.