The version of AHV installed on the remote host is prior to 20201105.30281. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AHV-20201105.30281 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in OpenLDAP. This flaw allows an attacker who can send a malicious packet to be processed     by OpenLDAP's slapd server, to trigger an assertion failure. The highest threat from this vulnerability is     to system availability. (CVE-2020-25709)

  - A flaw was found in OpenLDAP in versions before 2.4.56. This flaw allows an attacker who sends a malicious     packet processed by OpenLDAP to force a failed assertion in csnNormalize23(). The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-25710)

  - An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. A user who has control of the source, and     source_hash URLs can gain full file system access as root on a salt minion. (CVE-2021-21996)

  - A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is     a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according     predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters count correctly     and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting     environment variables in such a way it'll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfully     executed the attack can cause a local privilege escalation given unprivileged users administrative rights     on the target machine. (CVE-2021-4034)

  - AIDE before 0.17.4 allows local users to obtain root privileges via crafted file metadata (such as XFS     extended attributes or tmpfs ACLs), because of a heap-based buffer overflow. (CVE-2021-45417)

  - 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

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Nutanix AHV : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AHV-20201105.30281)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164559

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.5

Version 1.4

Version 1.7 Feb 23, 2023, 6:16 PM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202302231816
Version 1.6 Jan 23, 2023, 4:10 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework metasploit" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202301231610
Version 1.5 Jan 20, 2023, 6:02 PM Regenerated based on advisory update Plugin Feed: 202301201802
Version 1.4 Jan 12, 2023, 6:19 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework core" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202301121819