RHSA-2024:5453
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2024-08-15 08:10 - Updated: 2025-11-21 19:09Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Fence Agents Remediation 0.4.1 - Security update
Notes
Topic
This is an updated version of the Fence Agents Remediation Operator. This Operator is delivered by Red Hat Workload Availability, and version 0.4.1 is now available for RHEL 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details
The Fence Agents Remediation Operator fences and remediates nodes using
well-known agents. The remediation includes fencing the unhealthy node,
using a fencing agent, and then evicting workloads from the unhealthy node.
Security Fix:
* fence-agent: Fence Agent Command Line Options Leads to Remote Code Execution (CVE-2024-5651)
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.
Terms of Use
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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