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Fedora 36 : rust (2023-575fcaf4bf)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170238

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-575fcaf4bf advisory.

 Security fix for CVE-2022-46176: Cargo did not perform SSH host key verification when cloning indexes and dependencies via SSH. For more details, see the upstream [security advisory](https://blog.rust- lang.org/2023/01/10/cve-2022-46176.html).


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 affected rust package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-575fcaf4bf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170238

File Name: fedora_2023-575fcaf4bf.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/21/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, continuous_assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-46176

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-46176