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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : stunnel vulnerability (USN-6901-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202590

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6901-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that stunnel did not properly validate client certificates when configured to use both the redirect and verifyChain options. A remote attacker could potentially use this issue to obtain sensitive information by accessing the tunneled service.

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 stunnel4 package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6901-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202590

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6901-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2024

Updated: 7/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20230

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:stunnel4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20230

USN: 6901-1