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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : OpenSSH vulnerability (USN-6887-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202082

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6887-1 advisory.

 Philippos Giavridis, Jacky Wei En Kung, Daniel Hugenroth, and Alastair Beresford discovered that the OpenSSH ObscureKeystrokeTiming feature did not work as expected. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to determine timing information about keystrokes.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6887-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202082

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6887-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/10/2024

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-39894

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssh-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ssh, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssh-tests, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssh-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ssh-askpass-gnome, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssh-sftp-server

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-39894

IAVA: 2024-A-0375

USN: 6887-1