Amazon Linux 2 : ipa (ALAS-2024-2585)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202238

Synopsis

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

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2585 advisory.

A vulnerability was found in FreeIPA in a way when a Kerberos TGS-REQ is encrypted using the client's session key. This key is different for each new session, which protects it from brute force attacks.
However, the ticket it contains is encrypted using the target principal key directly. For user principals, this key is a hash of a public per-principal randomly-generated salt and the user's password.If a principal is compromised it means the attacker would be able to retrieve tickets encrypted to any principal, all of them being encrypted by their own key directly. By taking these tickets and salts offline, the attacker could run brute force attacks to find character strings able to decrypt tickets when combined to a principal salt (i.e. find the principal's password). (CVE-2024-3183)

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 ipa' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2585.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-3183.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202238

File Name: al2_ALAS-2024-2585.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2024

Updated: 8/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-3183

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-3183