Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Nova vulnerability (USN-5835-3)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170908

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5835-3 advisory.

Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin, and Damien Rannou discovered that Nova incorrectly handled VMDK image processing. An authenticated attacker could possibly supply a specially crafted VMDK flat image and obtain arbitrary files from the server containing sensitive information.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5835-3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170908

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5835-3.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/31/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-47951

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-vmware, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-ironic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-serialproxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-volume, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-api-os-compute, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-conductor, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-kvm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-spiceproxy, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-lxc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-novncproxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-qemu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-xen, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-api-os-volume, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-libvirt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-nova, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-api, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-ajax-console-proxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-cells, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-api-metadata, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-scheduler

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-47951

USN: 5835-3