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RHEL 8 : curl (RHSA-2023:7540)

low Nessus Plugin ID 189639

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for curl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7540 advisory.

 The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the curl utility for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP.

 Security Fix(es):

 * curl: cookie injection with none file (CVE-2023-38546)

 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.

 Bug Fix(es):

 * libssh (curl sftp) not trying password auth (BZ#2240032)

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 curl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7540.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b49ffb7c

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240032

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241938

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7540

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 189639

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7540.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/26/2024

Updated: 11/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38546

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/28/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38546

CWE: 73

IAVA: 2023-A-0531-S

RHSA: 2023:7540