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Fedora 38 : caddy (2023-74e5545901)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180201

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-74e5545901 advisory.

 This update takes caddy from 2.5.2 to 2.6.4. The primary purpose is to resolve a long standing FTBFS related to golang 1.20. The current F38 package is actually a carried-foward F37 build because of that reason. It also resolves CVE-2022-41721. This is a fairly significant upgrade with lots of new features and fixes, but after reviewing the upstream release notes I believe it should comply with the Fedora updates policy. The upgrade warnings in the release notes are described as either backwards compatible, marking a directive as deprecated without removing it, or changes to features that are marked as experimental.

 - https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.6.0
 - https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.6.1
 - https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.6.2
 - https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.6.3
 - https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.6.4


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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

Update the affected caddy package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-74e5545901

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 180201

File Name: fedora_2023-74e5545901.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/27/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41721

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:caddy, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41721