Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2022-1620)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163868

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of 389-ds-base installed on the remote host is prior to 1.3.10.2-9.67. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2022-1620 advisory.

A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. If an asterisk is imported as password hashes, either accidentally or maliciously, then instead of being inactive, any password will successfully match during authentication.
This flaw allows an attacker to successfully authenticate as a user whose password was disabled.
(CVE-2021-3652)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update 389-ds-base' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2022-1620.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3652.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 163868

File Name: ala_ALAS-2022-1620.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/5/2022

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

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-2021-3652

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:389-ds-base-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:389-ds-base-snmp, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:389-ds-base, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:389-ds-base-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:389-ds-base-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3652