Debian DLA-3534-1 : rar - LTS security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 179973

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3534 advisory.

- RARLAB UnRAR before 6.12 on Linux and UNIX allows directory traversal to write to files during an extract (aka unpack) operation, as demonstrated by creating a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. NOTE: WinRAR and Android RAR are unaffected. (CVE-2022-30333)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the rar packages.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 2

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012228

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/rar

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2023/dla-3534

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-30333

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/rar

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 179973

File Name: debian_DLA-3534.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/18/2023

Updated: 8/21/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30333

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rar

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2022

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 8/30/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (UnRAR Path Traversal in Zimbra (CVE-2022-30333))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-30333