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Fedora 31 : git (2020-cdef88bb89)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135728

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2020-5260

From the upstream [release notes](https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/2.17.
4.txt) :

> With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential > helper machinery can be fooled to give credential information for > a wrong host. The attack has been made impossible by forbidding > a newline character in any value passed via the credential > protocol.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected git package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-cdef88bb89

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135728

File Name: fedora_2020-cdef88bb89.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/20/2020

Updated: 4/27/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-5260

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:git, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5260