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Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14: RHSA-2022-1045 Critical TLS Resolution

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Calendar Grey March 18, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial patch released for rubygem-em-http-client addressing SSL certificate verification problems and preventing potential MITM threats.
An update for rubygem-em-http-request is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)

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

Summary

EventMachine based, async HTTP Request client.
Security Fix(es):
* missing SSL hostname validation allows MITM (CVE-2020-13482)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update important man-in-the-middle important update MITM attack SSL fix red hat openstack ssl validation Red Hat OpenStack Platform rubygem-em-http-request

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13482 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 Operational Tools for RHEL 7:
Source: rubygem-em-http-request-1.1.5-4.el7ost.src.rpm
ppc64le: rubygem-em-http-request-1.1.5-4.el7ost.ppc64le.rpm rubygem-em-http-request-debuginfo-1.1.5-4.el7ost.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: rubygem-em-http-request-1.1.5-4.el7ost.x86_64.rpm rubygem-em-http-request-debuginfo-1.1.5-4.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:0937-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0937
Issue date: 2021-03-18

Topic

An update for rubygem-em-http-request is now available for Red HatOpenStack Platform 13 (Queens).Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update important man-in-the-middle important update MITM attack SSL fix red hat openstack ssl validation Red Hat OpenStack Platform rubygem-em-http-request

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 Operational Tools for RHEL 7 - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1911457 - CVE-2020-13482 rubygem-em-http-request: missing SSL hostname validation allows MITM

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