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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Nova vulnerabilities (USN-5866-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171386

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5866-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Nova did not properly manage data logged into the log file. An attacker with read access to the service's logs could exploit this issue and may obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-9543)

 It was discovered that Nova did not properly handle attaching and reattaching the encrypted volume. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of service attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-18191)

 It was discovered that Nova did not properly handle the updation of domain XML after live migration. An attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt the volume or perform a denial of service attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-17376)

 It was discovered that Nova was not properly validating the URL passed to noVNC. An attacker could possibly use this issue by providing malicious URL to the noVNC proxy to redirect to any desired URL. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3654)

 It was discovered that Nova did not properly handle changes in the neutron port of vnic_type type. An authenticated user could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of service attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-37394)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-5866-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171386

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5866-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/13/2023

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-17376

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-console, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-network, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-lxc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-novncproxy, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-qemu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-xvpvncproxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-xen, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-consoleauth, 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:python-nova, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-cert, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-api-metadata, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-scheduler, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-vmware, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-placement-api, 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, 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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-9543, CVE-2017-18191, CVE-2020-17376, CVE-2021-3654, CVE-2022-37394

USN: 5866-1