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CentOS 8 : squid:4 (CESA-2020:3623)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 145836

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2020:3623 advisory.

 - squid: HTTP Request Smuggling could result in cache poisoning (CVE-2020-15810)

 - squid: HTTP Request Splitting could result in cache poisoning (CVE-2020-15811)

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 affected libecap, libecap-devel and / or squid packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3623

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 145836

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2020-3623.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2021

Updated: 2/8/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15811

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libecap-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:squid, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libecap

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/3/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15810, CVE-2020-15811

RHSA: 2020:3623