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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : openssh (EulerOS-SA-2019-1038)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122211

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the openssh packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - In OpenSSH 7.9, scp.c in the scp client allows remote SSH servers to bypass intended access restrictions via the filename of . or an empty filename. The impact is modifying the permissions of the target directory on the client side.(CVE-2018-20685)

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 openssh package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e4a2e592

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122211

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1038.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 2/15/2019

Updated: 6/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20685

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssh-askpass, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssh-keycat, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssh, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssh-clients, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssh-server, 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: 1/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20685