Security Bulletin: Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is affected by a CRI-O security vulnerability (CVE-2022-1708)

Summary

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is affected by a security vulnerability in CRI-O that causes memory or disk space exhaustion on the node for anyone with access to the Kubernetes API.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2022-1708
Description: A vulnerability was found in CRI-O that causes memory or disk space exhaustion on the node for anyone with access to the Kube API. The ExecSync request runs commands in a container and logs the output of the command. This output is then read by CRI-O after command execution, and it is read in a manner where the entire file corresponding to the output of the command is read in. Thus, if the output of the command is large it is possible to exhaust the memory or the disk space of the node when CRI-O reads the output of the command. The highest threat from this vulnerability is system availability.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/228431&gt; for more information
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 4.10-4.10.16_1521_openshift

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 4.9-4.9.36_1541_openshift

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 4.8-4.8.42_1559_openshift

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 4.7-4.7.51_1566_openshift
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 4.6-4.6.58_1587_openshift

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 3.11-4.5

Remediation/Fixes

Updates for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud cluster worker nodes at version 4.6 or later are available that fix this vulnerability. Customers must update worker nodes created before the fix was available to address the vulnerability. See updating worker nodes for details on updating worker nodes. To verify your cluster worker nodes have been updated, use the following IBM Cloud CLI command to confirm the currently running versions:

ibmcloud oc workers --cluster <cluster name or ID>

If the versions are at the following patch level or later, the cluster worker nodes have the fix:
4.10.18_1523_openshift
4.9.38_1543_openshift
4.8.42_1561_openshift
4.7.53_1568_openshift
4.6.59_1589_openshift

Customers running Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud clusters at version 4.5 must upgrade to version 4.6. Please review the documentation before starting an upgrade since additional actions may be required.

Customers running Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud clusters at version 4.4 or earlier must create a new cluster and deploy their apps to the new cluster.

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud versions 4.5 and earlier are no longer supported. See the Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud version information and update actions documentation for more information about OpenShift versions and version support policies.

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Red Hat CVE-2022-1708

Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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