RHEL 7 : yum-utils (RHSA-2018:2285)

high Nessus Plugin ID 111490

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for yum-utils.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2285 advisory.

The yum-utils packages provide a collection of utilities and examples for the yum package manager to make yum easier and more powerful to use.

Security Fix(es):

* yum-utils: reposync: improper path validation may lead to directory traversal (CVE-2018-10897)

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 Jay Grizzard (Clover Network) and Aaron Levy (Clover Network) for reporting this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL yum-utils package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:2285.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 111490

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2285.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/2/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10897

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-list-data, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-protectbase, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-networkmanager-dispatcher, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-upgrade-helper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-changelog, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-fastestmirror, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-verify, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-ovl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-copr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-aliases, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-merge-conf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-pre-transaction-actions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-post-transaction-actions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-updateonboot, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-tsflags, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-priorities, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-fs-snapshot, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-tmprepo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-keys, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-show-leaves, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-rpm-warm-cache, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-filter-data, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-versionlock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-auto-update-debug-info, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-local, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yum-plugin-ps

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10897

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2018:2285

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