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Fedora 29 : curl (2019-427a0ba9e3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 121333

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- xattr: strip credentials from any URL that is stored (CVE-2018-20483)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected curl package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-427a0ba9e3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121333

File Name: fedora_2019-427a0ba9e3.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2019

Updated: 6/26/2024

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: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20483

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29

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: 1/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20483