RHEL 8 : git (RHSA-2024:4084)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 200983

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for git.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4084 advisory.

Git is a distributed revision control system with a decentralized architecture. As opposed to centralized version control systems with a client-server model, Git ensures that each working copy of a Git repository is an exact copy with complete revision history. This not only allows the user to work on and contribute to projects without the need to have permission to push the changes to their official repositories, but also makes it possible for the user to work with no network connection.

Security Fix(es):

* git: Recursive clones RCE (CVE-2024-32002)

* git: RCE while cloning local repos (CVE-2024-32004)

* git: additional local RCE (CVE-2024-32465)

* git: insecure hardlinks (CVE-2024-32020)

* git: symlink bypass (CVE-2024-32021)

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL git package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:4084.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280421

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280428

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280446

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280466

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280484

http://www.nessus.org/u?e1cfe9c4

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4084

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 200983

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4084.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/25/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-32002

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gitweb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-email, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-core-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gitk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-git, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-all, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-credential-libsecret, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-daemon, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-instaweb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-svn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-git-svn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-subtree, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 6/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-32002, CVE-2024-32004, CVE-2024-32020, CVE-2024-32021, CVE-2024-32465

CWE: 114, 22, 434, 61, 62

RHSA: 2024:4084