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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : curl vulnerabilities (USN-5397-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 160318

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5397-1 advisory.

 Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain OAUTH2. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. (CVE-2022-22576)

 Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2022-27774, CVE-2022-27775, CVE-2022-27776)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5397-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 160318

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5397-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2022

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22576

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-gnutls, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:curl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-gnutls-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-nss, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-nss-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-openssl-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-22576, CVE-2022-27774, CVE-2022-27775, CVE-2022-27776

USN: 5397-1