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Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : amanda vulnerability (USN-6614-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189777

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6614-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that amanda did not properly check certain arguments. A local unprivileged attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a

 privilege escalation attack.

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 amanda-client, amanda-common and / or amanda-server packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6614-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189777

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6614-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/30/2024

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-30577

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amanda-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amanda-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amanda-server, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-30577

USN: 6614-1