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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : gdm (EulerOS-SA-2020-2511)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 144181

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - gdm3 versions before 3.36.2 or 3.38.2 would start gnome-initial-setup if gdm3 can't contact the accountservice service via dbus in a timely manner on Ubuntu (and potentially derivatives) this could be be chained with an additional issue that could allow a local user to create a new privileged account.(CVE-2020-16125)

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 gdm package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8a556044

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 144181

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-2511.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 12/14/2020

Updated: 2/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16125

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gdm, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16125