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Fedora 37 : salt (2023-89e8f3efc5)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 185348

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-89e8f3efc5 advisory.

 - allows an attacker to force Salt-SSH to run their script [fedora-all] (CVE-2023-34049)

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 salt package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-89e8f3efc5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 185348

File Name: fedora_2023-89e8f3efc5.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2023

Updated: 2/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34049

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:salt

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-34049

FEDORA: 2023-89e8f3efc5

IAVA: 2023-A-0609-S