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Amazon Linux 2 : pcs (ALAS-2023-1905)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170448

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of pcs installed on the remote host is prior to 0.9.169-3. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-1905 advisory.

 A Prototype Pollution vulnerability was found in jquery. Untrusted JSON passed to the `extend` function could lead to modifying objects up the prototype chain, including the global Object. A crafted JSON object passed to a vulnerable method could lead to denial of service or data injection, with various consequences. (CVE-2019-11358)

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 pcs' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-1905.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-11358.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170448

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-1905.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11358

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pcs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pcs-snmp, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pcs-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11358

IAVA: 2020-A-0495