RHEL 8 : spamassassin (RHSA-2020:4625)

high Nessus Plugin ID 142377

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for spamassassin.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4625 advisory.

The SpamAssassin tool provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email (spam) from incoming email.

Security Fix(es):

* spamassassin: crafted configuration files can run system commands without any output or errors (CVE-2018-11805)

* spamassassin: crafted email message can lead to DoS (CVE-2019-12420)

* spamassassin: command injection via crafted configuration file (CVE-2020-1930)

* spamassassin: command injection via crafted configuration file (CVE-2020-1931)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL spamassassin package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4625.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6acaebbe

http://www.nessus.org/u?b7e37d18

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4625

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1630362

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1784974

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1784984

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1802975

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1802977

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 142377

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4625.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/4/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1931

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spamassassin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11805, CVE-2019-12420, CVE-2020-1930, CVE-2020-1931

CWE: 400, 78

IAVA: 2020-A-0056-S

RHSA: 2020:4625