RHEL 7 : mariadb-galera (RHSA-2020:5379)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 143607

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for mariadb-galera.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5379 advisory.

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that is binary compatible with MySQL. Galera is a synchronous multi-master cluster for MariaDB.

Security Fix(es):

* mariadb-galera: mariadb: Insufficient SST method name check leading to code injection in mysql-wsrep (CVE-2020-15180)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL mariadb-galera package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:5379.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0d3f3c08

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5379

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894919

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 143607

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-5379.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2020

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15180

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/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:mariadb-galera-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-galera, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-galera-common, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 12/8/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15180

CWE: 96

RHSA: 2020:5379