EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : jakarta-commons-httpclient (EulerOS-SA-2020-1109)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133910

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the jakarta-commons-httpclient package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- http/conn/ssl/SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java in Apache HttpComponents HttpClient before 4.3.6 ignores the http.socket.timeout configuration setting during an SSL handshake, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (HTTPS call hang) via unspecified vectors.(CVE-2015-5262)

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 jakarta-commons-httpclient package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?dadf5096

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 133910

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1109.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 2/24/2020

Updated: 3/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5262

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:jakarta-commons-httpclient

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: 2/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5262