Debian DLA-1556-1 : paramiko security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118469

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2018-1000805 Fix to prevent malicious clients to trick the Paramiko server into thinking an unauthenticated client is authenticated.

CVE-2018-7750 Fix check whether authentication is completed before processing other requests. A customized SSH client can simply skip the authentication step.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.15.1-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your paramiko packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 118469

File Name: debian_DLA-1556.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/29/2018

Updated: 7/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7750

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-paramiko, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:paramiko-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-paramiko, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000805, CVE-2018-7750

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