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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2021-2311)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152407

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It isused for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privilegedprocesses.(CVE-2021-3560)

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 polkit package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cb6d1587

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152407

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-2311.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 8/10/2021

Updated: 12/4/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

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-2021-3560

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:polkit, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:polkit-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:polkit-docs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:polkit-libs, 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: 8/9/2021

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/2/2023

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Polkit D-Bus Authentication Bypass)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3560