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Amazon Linux 2 : snakeyaml (ALAS-2024-2450)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190046

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of snakeyaml installed on the remote host is prior to 1.11-8. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2450 advisory.

 - Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stack-overflow. (CVE-2022-38752)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update snakeyaml' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2450.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-38752.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190046

File Name: al2_ALAS-2024-2450.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/6/2024

Updated: 2/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-38752

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:snakeyaml, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:snakeyaml-javadoc, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38752