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CentOS 7 : PackageKit (CESA-2018:1224)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110243

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for PackageKit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

PackageKit is a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the session user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distribution, cross-architecture API.

Security Fix(es) :

* PackageKit: authentication bypass allows to install signed packages without administrator privileges (CVE-2018-1106)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Matthias Gerstner (SUSE) for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packagekit packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ec2f3d44

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110243

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-1224.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/31/2018

Updated: 9/30/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1106

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:packagekit-command-not-found, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:packagekit-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:packagekit-glib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:packagekit, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:packagekit-gstreamer-plugin, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:packagekit-yum-plugin, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:packagekit-yum, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:packagekit-gtk3-module, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:packagekit-cron

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1106

RHSA: 2018:1224