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Amazon Linux 2022 : cargo, clippy, rust (ALAS2022-2023-278)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170595

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2022 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2023-278 advisory.

 Cargo is a Rust package manager. The Rust Security Response WG was notified that Cargo did not perform SSH host key verification when cloning indexes and dependencies via SSH. An attacker could exploit this to perform man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2022-46176. All Rust versions containing Cargo before 1.66.1 are vulnerable. Note that even if you don't explicitly use SSH for alternate registry indexes or crate dependencies, you might be affected by this vulnerability if you have configured git to replace HTTPS connections to GitHub with SSH (through git's [][1] setting), as that'd cause you to clone the crates.io index through SSH. Rust 1.66.1 will ensure Cargo checks the SSH host key and abort the connection if the server's public key is not already trusted. We recommend everyone to upgrade as soon as possible. (CVE-2022-46176)

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 'dnf update rust' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2022/ALAS-2023-278.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-46176.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170595

File Name: al2022_ALAS2022-2023-278.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: 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: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rustfmt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cargo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-lldb, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-analyzer-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-debugger-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rustfmt, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:clippy-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2022, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-analyzer, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-std-static-wasm32-unknown-unknown, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-src, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-std-static-wasm32-wasi, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cargo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-gdb, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-std-static, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-analysis, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:clippy

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-46176