RHSA-2023:7523 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: fence-agents security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 29, 2023

Updated · October 31, 2026

Topic

An update for fence-agents is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

Description

The fence-agents packages provide a collection of scripts for handling remote power management for cluster devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.

Security Fix(es):

  • python-certifi: Removal of e-Tugra root certificate (CVE-2023-37920)

  • python-urllib3: Cookie request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2023-43804)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2023:7523 — Red Hat Security Advisory: fence-agents security update | PulseLinux