Amazon Linux AMI : golang (ALAS-2019-1238)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127066

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

An issue was discovered in net/http in Go. CRLF injection is possible if the attacker controls a url parameter, as demonstrated by the second argument to http.NewRequest with \r\n followed by an HTTP header or a Redis command. (CVE-2019-9741)

Solution

Run 'yum update golang' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2019-1238.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127066

File Name: ala_ALAS-2019-1238.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2019

Updated: 5/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9741

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-bin, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-src, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-race, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-tests, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-docs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-misc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9741

ALAS: 2019-1238