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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : xdg-user-dirs (EulerOS-SA-2018-1181)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110845

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the xdg-user-dirs package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - It was found that the system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories (~/Desktop etc) on first login. This could lead to user's files being inadvertently exposed to other local users.(CVE-2017-15131)

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.

Solution

Update the affected xdg-user-dirs package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fb1b436f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110845

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1181.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Published: 7/3/2018

Updated: 9/10/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15131

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xdg-user-dirs, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15131