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Amazon Linux 2023 : cups, cups-client, cups-devel (ALAS2023-2023-073)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 173064

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-073 advisory.

 An authorization vulnerability was found in the CUPS printing system. This security vulnerability occurs when local authorization happens. This flaw allows an attacker to authenticate to CUPS as root/admin without the 32-byte secret key and perform arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2022-26691)

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 cups --releasever=2023.0.20230222 ' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2023-073.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-26691.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 173064

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2023-073.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/21/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-26691

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/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:amazon:linux:cups-printerapp, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-ipptool-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-printerapp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-ipptool, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-lpd, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-lpd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-debugsource

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-26691