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CentOS 8 : varnish:6 (CESA-2022:0418)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 157381

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2022:0418 advisory.

 - varnish: HTTP/1 request smuggling vulnerability (CVE-2022-23959)

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 packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0418

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 157381

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2022-0418.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2022

Updated: 2/4/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23959

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:centos:centos:varnish, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:varnish-docs, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:varnish-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:varnish-modules

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/3/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23959

RHSA: 2022:0418