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EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : net-snmp (EulerOS-SA-2021-1660)

high Nessus Plugin ID 147698

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the net-snmp packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 has Improper Privilege Management because SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB provides the ability to run arbitrary commands as root.(CVE-2020-15862)

 - Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 allows Escalation of Privileges because of UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following.(CVE-2020-15861)

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 net-snmp packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d94eb5a9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 147698

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1660.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 3/11/2021

Updated: 1/10/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15862

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:net-snmp, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:net-snmp-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python3-net-snmp, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.9.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15861, CVE-2020-15862