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RHEL uses a practice called backporting, where older versions of software in packages get fixes from newer versions of the software without changing the version. This means that scanners that only check the version number can give you false positives for CVEs that are actually fixed. Is there a specific CVE that your scanner mentions? If so, you can look it up in the Red Hat CVE database and check if the fix has been backported, and which release of the package includes said fix.
Oh, I was not aware of this. This is very useful! I will check it out and post an update later. Thank you!
I checked, and the versions of those modules that are currently installed are way behind what's provided in the listed Red Hat patch, so it does seem that the updates for this just haven't been installed. I will try to double-check with Red Hat support to be sure that enabling the Ceph repository is the correct course of action to take. Thank you once again for your help.