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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-2442-01 Moderate: OpenShift 4.3.25 Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey June 17, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued an Important security advisory for OpenShift 4.3.25 regarding a vulnerability that allows unauthorized container privilege escalation.
An update for openshift-enterprise-apb-tools-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for release 4.3.25, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.3/html/release_notes/ocp-4-3-release-notes

Details on how to access this content are available at - -cli.html.

Summary

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/apb-tools: A container privilege escalation vulnerability allowed any user within the container to escalate to root (CVE-2020-1706)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat privilege escalation OpenShift container apb-tools

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1706 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2442-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2442
Issue date: 2020-06-17

Topic

An update for openshift-enterprise-apb-tools-container is now available forRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat privilege escalation OpenShift container apb-tools

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

1793302 - CVE-2020-1706 openshift/apb-tools: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges

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