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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : sudo (EulerOS-SA-2021-1366)

high Nessus Plugin ID 146716

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - Sudo before 1.9.5p2 has a Heap-based Buffer Overflow, allowing privilege escalation to root via 'sudoedit -s' and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.(CVE-2021-3156)

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 sudo package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4587a5e0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 146716

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1366.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 2/22/2021

Updated: 1/18/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3156

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sudo, 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: 2/19/2021

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/27/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Sudo Heap-Based Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3156