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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Sudo vulnerabilities (USN-6005-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174161

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6005-1 advisory.

 Matthieu Barjole and Victor Cutillas discovered that Sudo incorrectly escaped control characters in log messages and sudoreplay output. An attacker could possibly use these issues to inject terminal control characters that alter output when being viewed.

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 sudo and / or sudo-ldap packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6005-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174161

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6005-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/12/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sudo, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sudo-ldap

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28486, CVE-2023-28487

IAVA: 2023-A-0121-S

USN: 6005-1