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RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-maven33-plexus-archiver and rh-maven35-plexus-archiver (RHSA-2018:1837)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194078

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rh-maven33-plexus-archiver / rh-maven35-plexus-archiver.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1837 advisory.

 The Plexus project provides a full software stack for creating and executing software projects. Based on the Plexus container, the applications can utilise component-oriented programming to build modular, reusable components that can easily be assembled and reused. The plexus-archiver component provides functions to create and extract archives.

 Security Fix(es):

 * plexus-archiver: arbitrary file write vulnerability / arbitrary code execution using a specially crafted zip file (CVE-2018-1002200)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Red Hat would like to thank Danny Grander (Snyk) for reporting this issue.

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 rh-maven33-plexus-archiver / rh-maven35-plexus-archiver packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:1837.

See Also

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

https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1584392

http://www.nessus.org/u?c2d0047c

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194078

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1837.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1002200

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven33-plexus-archiver, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-plexus-archiver, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven33-plexus-archiver-javadoc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-plexus-archiver-javadoc

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: 6/12/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1002200

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2018:1837