openSUSE 15 Security Update : aria2 (openSUSE-SU-2021:1125-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152462

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:1125-1 advisory.

- aria2c in aria2 1.33.1, when --log is used, can store an HTTP Basic Authentication username and password in a file, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading this file.
(CVE-2019-3500)

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 affected aria2, aria2-devel, aria2-lang and / or libaria2-0 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152462

File Name: openSUSE-2021-1125.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/11/2021

Updated: 1/20/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3500

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:aria2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:aria2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:aria2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libaria2-0, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3500

Detections

Analytics