RHEL 8 : openssh (RHSA-2019:3702)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130569

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3702 advisory.

- openssh: scp client improper directory name validation (CVE-2018-20685)

- openssh: Missing character encoding in progress display allows for spoofing of scp client output (CVE-2019-6109)

- openssh: Improper validation of object names allows malicious server to overwrite files via scp client (CVE-2019-6111)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?c1373590

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3702

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665785

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1666119

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1666127

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1667519

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1668325

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683295

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1685096

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1686065

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1691045

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1707485

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1712436

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1732424

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1732449

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130569

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3702.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2019

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6111

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6109

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssh-askpass, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssh-cavs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssh-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssh-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssh-keycat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pam_ssh_agent_auth, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssh-clients

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: 1/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20685, CVE-2019-6109, CVE-2019-6111

CWE: 20, 451

RHSA: 2019:3702