RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2019:3476)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130543

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for squid:4.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3476 advisory.

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects.

Security Fix(es):

* squid: XSS via user_name or auth parameter in cachemgr.cgi (CVE-2019-13345)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from 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 squid:4 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:3476.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6a78d137

http://www.nessus.org/u?b8d3b26b

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3476

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679526

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683527

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1703117

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717046

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1727744

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130543

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3476.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2019

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2019-13345

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:libecap-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libecap

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: 11/5/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13345

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2019:3476