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RHEL 8 : udisks2 (RHSA-2022:1820)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 161050

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for udisks2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1820 advisory.

 The Udisks project provides a daemon, tools, and libraries to access and manipulate disks, storage devices, and technologies.

 Security Fix(es):

 * udisks2: insecure defaults in user-accessible mount helpers allow for a DoS (CVE-2021-3802)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 RHEL udisks2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:1820.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9341665d

http://www.nessus.org/u?b5877643

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1820

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2003649

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2004422

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023880

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025483

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 161050

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1820.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3802

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2-lsm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udisks2-lvm2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libudisks2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libudisks2-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3802

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2022:1820