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Amazon Linux 2 : ipa (ALAS-2024-2457)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190706

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Synopsis

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

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2457 advisory.

 - A Cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in ipa/session/login_password in all supported versions of IPA. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the user into submitting a request that could perform actions as the user, resulting in a loss of confidentiality and system integrity. During community penetration testing it was found that for certain HTTP end-points FreeIPA does not ensure CSRF protection.
 Due to implementation details one cannot use this flaw for reflection of a cookie representing already logged-in user. An attacker would always have to go through a new authentication attempt. (CVE-2023-5455)

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 ipa' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2457.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-5455.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190706

File Name: al2_ALAS-2024-2457.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/19/2024

Updated: 2/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5455

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ipa-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python2-ipalib, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ipa-server, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ipa-server-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python2-ipaserver, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ipa-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ipa-server-dns, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ipa-server-trust-ad, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python2-ipaclient, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ipa-client, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ipa-client-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ipa-python-compat, 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: 2/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5455