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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2019-2651)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132186

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 polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorizatio n function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.(CVE-2018-1116)

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?035f4565

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132186

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2651.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 12/18/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1116

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1116