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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : pki-core (EulerOS-SA-2021-1885)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149623

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A flaw was found in pki-core. An attacker who has successfully compromised a key could use this flaw to renew the corresponding certificate over and over again, as long as it is not explicitly revoked. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.(CVE-2021-20179)

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 pki-core package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc75e75e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149623

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1885.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 5/18/2021

Updated: 1/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20179

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:pki-symkey, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20179