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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : xorg-x11-server (EulerOS-SA-2019-2123)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130832

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the xorg-x11-server packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A flaw was found in xorg-x11-server before 1.20.3. An incorrect permission check for -modulepath and -logfile options when starting Xorg. X server allows unprivileged users with the ability to log in to the system via physical console to escalate their privileges and run arbitrary code under root privileges.(CVE-2018-14665)

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 xorg-x11-server package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1c470d79

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130832

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2123.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 11/12/2019

Updated: 4/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14665

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/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:huawei:euleros:xorg-x11-server-xephyr, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xorg-x11-server-xorg, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xorg-x11-server-xvfb, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xorg-x11-server-xwayland, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xorg-x11-server-common, 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: 10/27/2019

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Xorg X11 Server SUID modulepath Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14665