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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : ipa (EulerOS-SA-2020-1918)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140139

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the ipa packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A flaw was found in all ipa versions 4.x.x through 4.8.0. When sending a very long password (>= 1,000,000 characters) to the server, the password hashing process could exhaust memory and CPU leading to a denial of service and the website becoming unresponsive. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.(CVE-2020-1722)

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 ipa package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ff603fac

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140139

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1918.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 9/2/2020

Updated: 2/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1722

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ipa-client, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ipa-client-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ipa-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ipa-python-compat, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ipa-server, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ipa-server-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ipa-server-dns, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ipa-server-trust-ad, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python2-ipaclient, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python2-ipalib, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python2-ipaserver, 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: 9/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1722