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EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : sssd (EulerOS-SA-2023-1295)

high Nessus Plugin ID 170810

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the sssd packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - A flaw was found in SSSD, where the sssctl command was vulnerable to shell command injection via the logs- fetch and cache-expire subcommands. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the root user into running a specially crafted sssctl command, such as via sudo, to gain root access. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2021-3621)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected sssd packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?894fa778

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 170810

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-1295.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 1/30/2023

Updated: 1/30/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3621

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sssd, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sssd-ad, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sssd-client, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sssd-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sssd-common-pac, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sssd-ipa, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sssd-krb5, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sssd-krb5-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sssd-ldap, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sssd-proxy, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.2.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3621