RHSA-2023:7528 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: fence-agents security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
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 8.8 Extended Update Support.
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):
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python-certifi: Removal of e-Tugra root certificate (CVE-2023-37920)
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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.