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Fedora 38 : borgbackup (2023-555f9fac30)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181458

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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-2023-555f9fac30 advisory.

 fix for CVE-2023-36811: spoofed archive leads to data loss

 Please note that starting with borgbackup 1.2.5 all borg repos must use TAM authentication:
 https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/1.2.6/docs/changes.rst#pre-125-archives-spoofing-vulnerability- cve-2023-36811

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 borgbackup package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-555f9fac30

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181458

File Name: fedora_2023-555f9fac30.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2023

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: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36811

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36811