An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL of a file on the system and gain more privileges.

The version of F5 Networks BIG-IP installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the K000140961 advisory.

    An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list     (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would     trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL     of a file on the system and gain more privileges.(CVE-2021-23177)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the F5 Networks BIG-IP security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the libarchive package has been released.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2022:0892 advisory.

  - An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list     (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would     trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL     of a file on the system and gain more privileges. (CVE-2021-23177)

  - An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times,     access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious     archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker     may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system. (CVE-2021-31566)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3202 advisory.

  - In Libarchive 3.4.0, archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c has an out-of-bounds read because     of an incorrect mbrtowc or mbtowc call. For example, bsdtar crashes via a crafted archive.
    (CVE-2019-19221)

  - An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list     (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would     trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL     of a file on the system and gain more privileges. (CVE-2021-23177)

  - An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times,     access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious     archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker     may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system. (CVE-2021-31566)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the libarchive packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list     (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would     trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL     of a file on the system and gain more privileges. (CVE-2021-23177)

  - An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times,     access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious     archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker     may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system. (CVE-2021-31566)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3393-1 advisory.

  - An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list     (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would     trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL     of a file on the system and gain more privileges. (CVE-2021-23177)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3306-1 advisory.

  - An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list     (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would     trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL     of a file on the system and gain more privileges. (CVE-2021-23177)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the libarchive package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - libarchive: extracting a symlink with ACLs modifies ACLs of target (CVE-2021-23177)

  - libarchive: symbolic links incorrectly followed when changing modes, times, ACL and flags of a file while     extracting an archive (CVE-2021-31566)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the libarchive package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times,     access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious     archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker     may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system. (CVE-2021-31566)

  - An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list     (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would     trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL     of a file on the system and gain more privileges. (CVE-2021-23177)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2987 advisory.

  - In Libarchive 3.4.0, archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c has an out-of-bounds read because     of an incorrect mbrtowc or mbtowc call. For example, bsdtar crashes via a crafted archive.
    (CVE-2019-19221)

  - An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list     (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would     trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL     of a file on the system and gain more privileges. (CVE-2021-23177)

  - An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times,     access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious     archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker     may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system. (CVE-2021-31566)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the libarchive package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times,     access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious     archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker     may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system. (CVE-2021-31566)

  - An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list     (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would     trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL     of a file on the system and gain more privileges. (CVE-2021-23177)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the libarchive packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times,     access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious     archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker     may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system. (CVE-2021-31566)

  - An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list     (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would     trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL     of a file on the system and gain more privileges. (CVE-2021-23177)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-0892 advisory.

    - Do not follow symlinks when processing the fixup list (CVE-2021-31566)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2022:0892 advisory.

  - libarchive: extracting a symlink with ACLs modifies ACLs of target (CVE-2021-23177)

  - libarchive: symbolic links incorrectly followed when changing modes, times, ACL and flags of a file while     extracting an archive (CVE-2021-31566)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0892 advisory.

    The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats,     including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility,     scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libarchive: extracting a symlink with ACLs modifies ACLs of target (CVE-2021-23177)

    * libarchive: symbolic links incorrectly followed when changing modes, times, ACL and flags of a file     while extracting an archive (CVE-2021-31566)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5291-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled symlinks. If a user or automated system were tricked     into processing a specially crafted archive, an attacker could possibly use this issue to change modes,     times, ACLs, and flags on arbitrary files. (CVE-2021-23177, CVE-2021-31566)

    It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain RAR archives. If a user or automated system     were tricked into processing a specially crafted RAR archive, an attacker could use this issue to cause     libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2021-36976)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
206698	F5 Networks BIG-IP : libarchive vulnerability (K000140961)	Nessus	F5 Networks Local Security Checks	high
204626	Photon OS 3.0: Libarchive PHSA-2022-3.0-0447	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
203158	Photon OS 4.0: Libarchive PHSA-2022-4.0-0246	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
195496	RHEL 6 : libarchive (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195485	RHEL 7 : libarchive (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
184595	Rocky Linux 8 : libarchive (RLSA-2022:0892)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	high
168147	Debian DLA-3202-1 : libarchive - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
165931	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-2568)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
165499	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2022:3393-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
165252	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2022:3306-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
163159	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-2055)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
163158	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-2027)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
160604	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1631)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
160594	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1608)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
160408	Debian DLA-2987-1 : libarchive - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
160014	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1509)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
160001	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1490)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
159790	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1430)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
159778	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1451)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
159258	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1353)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
158956	Oracle Linux 8 : libarchive (ELSA-2022-0892)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
158953	CentOS 8 : libarchive (CESA-2022:0892)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
158952	RHEL 8 : libarchive (RHSA-2022:0892)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
158134	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : libarchive vulnerabilities (USN-5291-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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