RHEL 7 : pesign (RHSA-2023:1093)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 172212

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for pesign.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1093 advisory.

- pesign: Local privilege escalation on pesign systemd service (CVE-2022-3560)

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 RHEL pesign package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:1093.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?97f33b88

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1093

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2135420

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 172212

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-1093.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3560

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pesign

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3560

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2023:1093