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RHEL 7 : sudo (RHSA-2019:3278)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130443

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for sudo.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3278 advisory.

 The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged commands, which are used for system management purposes, without having to log in as root.

 Security Fix(es):

 * sudo: Privilege escalation via 'Runas' specification with 'ALL' keyword (CVE-2019-14287)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL sudo package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:3278.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?bc3520fb

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3278

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1760531

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130443

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3278.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/1/2019

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sudo-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:7.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sudo, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:7.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:7.2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2019

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14287

CWE: 267

RHSA: 2019:3278