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Fedora 27 : couchdb / erlang-jiffy (2017-a20d92573b)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 105943

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

- CouchDB ver. 1.7.1

 - Fixed CVE-2017-12635

 - Fixed CVE-2017-12636

 - Switched to eunit for testing

 - Erlang 20 compatible

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Solution

Update the affected couchdb and / or erlang-jiffy packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-a20d92573b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 105943

File Name: fedora_2017-a20d92573b.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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 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:fedoraproject:fedora:27, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:couchdb, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:erlang-jiffy

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: 12/10/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2017

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Metasploit (Apache CouchDB Arbitrary Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12635, CVE-2017-12636