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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2019-2042)

high Nessus Plugin ID 129235

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.(CVE-2018-19788)

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 polkit package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fc8f7fb4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129235

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2042.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 9/24/2019

Updated: 4/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19788

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:huawei:euleros:polkit, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:polkit-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:polkit-docs, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19788