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RHEL 8 : gssdp and gupnp (RHSA-2021:1789)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149658

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gssdp / gupnp.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1789 advisory.

 GUPnP is an object-oriented open source framework for creating UPnP devices and control points, written in C using GObject and libsoup. The GUPnP API is intended to be easy to use, efficient and flexible.

 GSSDP implements resource discovery and announcement over SSDP and is part of gUPnP.

 The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: gssdp (1.0.5), gupnp (1.0.6).
 (BZ#1846589, BZ#1861928)

 Security Fix(es):

 * hostapd: UPnP SUBSCRIBE misbehavior in WPS AP (CVE-2020-12695)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL gssdp / gupnp packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:1789.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3598fef3

http://www.nessus.org/u?862005a9

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1789

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1846006

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149658

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1789.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.8

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12695

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gssdp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gupnp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gupnp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gssdp-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gssdp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12695

CWE: 918

RHSA: 2021:1789