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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : juju-core vulnerability (USN-3300-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 100509

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3300-1 advisory.

 Ryan Beisner discovered juju did not set permissions on a Unix domain socket. A local attacker could use this flaw to gain administrative privileges.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3300-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 100509

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3300-1.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/30/2017

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9232

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:juju-local, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:juju-2.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:juju-core, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:juju-local-kvm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:juju

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Juju-run Agent Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9232

USN: 3300-1