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RHEL 8 : shadow-utils (RHSA-2023:7112)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185670

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for shadow-utils.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7112 advisory.

 The shadow-utils packages include programs for converting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, as well as utilities for managing user and group accounts.

 Security Fix(es):

 * shadow-utils: possible password leak during passwd(1) change (CVE-2023-4641)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL shadow-utils package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7112.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?612d4537

http://www.nessus.org/u?819248f8

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1984740

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1994269

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2012929

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215945

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7112

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185670

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7112.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4641

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shadow-utils-subid, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shadow-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shadow-utils-subid-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4641

CWE: 303

RHSA: 2023:7112