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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : strongSwan vulnerability (USN-6488-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 186013

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6488-1 advisory.

 Florian Picca discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled certain DH public values. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause strongSwan to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6488-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 186013

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6488-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/20/2023

Updated: 9/18/2024

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-41913

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libstrongswan-standard-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-nm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcharon-extra-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:charon-cmd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libstrongswan, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-libcharon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcharon-standard-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-tnc-ifmap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-tnc-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-pki, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-swanctl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libstrongswan-extra-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-tnc-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-tnc-pdp, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-scepclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcharon-extauth-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:charon-systemd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-starter, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-tnc-client, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-charon

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-41913

USN: 6488-1