Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2021-1509)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 151508

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of curl installed on the remote host is prior to 7.61.1-12.98. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2021-1509 advisory.

It was discovered that libcurl did not remove authentication credentials from URLs when automatically populating the Referer HTTP request header while handling HTTP redirects. This could lead to exposure of the credentials to the server to which requests were redirected. (CVE-2021-22876)

A vulnerability was found in curl where a flaw in the option parser for sending NEW_ENV variables libcurl can pass uninitialized data from a stack-based buffer to the server. This issue leads to potentially revealing sensitive internal information to the server using a clear-text network protocol. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality. (CVE-2021-22898)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

Solution

Run 'yum update curl' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 151508

File Name: ala_ALAS-2021-1509.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/13/2021

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22876

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:curl-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:curl

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22876, CVE-2021-22898

ALAS: 2021-1509

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