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Amazon Linux 2 : openssh (ALAS-2024-2507)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192739

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of openssh installed on the remote host is prior to 7.4p1-22. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2507 advisory.

 In ssh in OpenSSH before 9.6, OS command injection might occur if a user name or host name has shell metacharacters, and this name is referenced by an expansion token in certain situations. For example, an untrusted Git repository can have a submodule with shell metacharacters in a user name or host name.
 (CVE-2023-51385)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update openssh' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2507.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-51385.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192739

File Name: al2_ALAS-2024-2507.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2024

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-51385

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-clients, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-cavs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-keycat, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pam_ssh_agent_auth, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-askpass, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-server, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-ldap, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-server-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-51385

IAVA: 2023-A-0701-S