CentOS 7 : cyrus-sasl (RHSA-2022:0666)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158439

Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0666 advisory.

- In Cyrus SASL 2.1.17 through 2.1.27 before 2.1.28, plugins/sql.c does not escape the password for a SQL INSERT or UPDATE statement. (CVE-2022-24407)

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-2022:0666

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 158439

File Name: centos_RHSA-2022-0666.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/25/2022

Updated: 10/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24407

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-gs2, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-scram, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-lib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-md5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-plain, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-sql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-ntlm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-gssapi

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24407

RHSA: 2022:0666