NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : nss Vulnerability (NS-SA-2022-0080)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 167482

Synopsis

The remote NewStart CGSL host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has nss packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

- NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS \#7, or PKCS \#12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how they configure NSS. *Note: This vulnerability does NOT impact Mozilla Firefox.* However, email clients and PDF viewers that use NSS for signature verification, such as Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Evolution and Evince are believed to be impacted. This vulnerability affects NSS < 3.73 and NSS < 3.68.1.
(CVE-2021-43527)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the vulnerable CGSL nss packages. Note that updated packages may not be available yet. Please contact ZTE for more information.

See Also

http://security.gd-linux.com/notice/NS-SA-2022-0080

http://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2021-43527

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 167482

File Name: newstart_cgsl_NS-SA-2022-0080_nss.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 11/15/2022

Updated: 10/4/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-43527

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:nss, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:nss-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:nss, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:nss-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:nss-tools, cpe:/o:zte:cgsl_core:5, cpe:/o:zte:cgsl_main:5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-43527