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CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: openssl (CVE-2023-3817)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180358

Synopsis

The remote CBL Mariner host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The version of openssl installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2023-3817 advisory.

 - Issue summary: Checking excessively long DH keys or parameters May be very slow. Impact summary:
 Applications that use the functions DH_check(), DH_check_ex() or EVP_PKEY_param_check() to check a DH key or DH parameters May experience long delays. Where the key or parameters that are being checked have been obtained from an untrusted source this May lead to a Denial of Service. The function DH_check() performs various checks on DH parameters. After fixing CVE-2023-3446 it was discovered that a large q parameter value can also trigger an overly long computation during some of these checks. A correct q value, if present, cannot be larger than the modulus p parameter, thus it is unnecessary to perform these checks if q is larger than p. An application that calls DH_check() and supplies a key or parameters obtained from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack. The function DH_check() is itself called by a number of other OpenSSL functions. An application calling any of those other functions may similarly be affected. The other functions affected by this are DH_check_ex() and EVP_PKEY_param_check().
 Also vulnerable are the OpenSSL dhparam and pkeyparam command line applications when using the -check option. The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected by this issue. The OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1 FIPS providers are not affected by this issue. (CVE-2023-3817)

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 packages.

See Also

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3817

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180358

File Name: mariner_openssl_CVE-2023-3817.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 8/31/2023

Updated: 2/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-3817

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:N/I:N/A:L

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:openssl-static, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:openssl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:openssl, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:openssl-perl, x-cpe:/o:microsoft:cbl-mariner, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:openssl-libs, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:openssl-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3817

IAVA: 2023-A-0398-S