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CentOS 7 : git (RHSA-2020:1511)

high Nessus Plugin ID 136197

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1511 advisory.

 - Affected versions of Git have a vulnerability whereby Git can be tricked into sending private credentials to a host controlled by an attacker. Git uses external credential helper programs to store and retrieve passwords or other credentials from secure storage provided by the operating system. Specially-crafted URLs that contain an encoded newline can inject unintended values into the credential helper protocol stream, causing the credential helper to retrieve the password for one server (e.g., good.example.com) for an HTTP request being made to another server (e.g., evil.example.com), resulting in credentials for the former being sent to the latter. There are no restrictions on the relationship between the two, meaning that an attacker can craft a URL that will present stored credentials for any host to a host of their choosing. The vulnerability can be triggered by feeding a malicious URL to git clone. However, the affected URLs look rather suspicious; the likely vector would be through systems which automatically clone URLs not visible to the user, such as Git submodules, or package systems built around Git. The problem has been patched in the versions published on April 14th, 2020, going back to v2.17.x. Anyone wishing to backport the change further can do so by applying commit 9a6bbee (the full release includes extra checks for git fsck, but that commit is sufficient to protect clients against the vulnerability). The patched versions are: 2.17.4, 2.18.3, 2.19.4, 2.20.3, 2.21.2, 2.22.3, 2.23.2, 2.24.2, 2.25.3, 2.26.1.
 (CVE-2020-5260)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1511

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136197

File Name: centos_RHSA-2020-1511.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/1/2020

Updated: 10/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment 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:centos:centos:git-email, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs-git, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-git-svn, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-daemon, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-bzr, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-instaweb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gitk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-all, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-gnome-keyring, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs-git-el, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-svn, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-hg, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gitweb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-p4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-cvs, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-git, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-gui

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5260

RHSA: 2020:1511