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Fedora 25 : git (2017-8ba7572cfd)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102458

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Resolve an arbitrary code execution vulnerability via crafted 'ssh://' URL (CVE-2017-1000117).

From the [release announcement](https://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected] v.corp.google.com/) :

A malicious third-party can give a crafted 'ssh://...' URL to an unsuspecting victim, and an attempt to visit the URL can result in any program that exists on the victim's machine being executed. Such a URL could be placed in the .gitmodules file of a malicious project, and an unsuspecting victim could be tricked into running 'git clone
--recurse-submodules' to trigger the vulnerability.

Credits to find and fix the issue go to Brian Neel at GitLab, Joern Schneeweisz of Recurity Labs and Jeff King at GitHub.

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

Solution

Update the affected git package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-8ba7572cfd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102458

File Name: fedora_2017-8ba7572cfd.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:git

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/13/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Malicious Git HTTP Server For CVE-2017-1000117)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000117