Amazon Linux 2 : ecs-service-connect-agent (ALASECS-2024-038)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202983

Synopsis

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

Description

The version of ecs-service-connect-agent installed on the remote host is prior to v1.29.6.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2ECS-2024-038 advisory.

dd-trace-cpp is the Datadog distributed tracing for C++. When the library fails to extract trace context due to malformed unicode, it logs the list of audited headers and their values using the `nlohmann` JSON library. However, due to the way the JSON library is invoked, it throws an uncaught exception, which results in a crash. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.2.2. (CVE-2024-38525)

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 ecs-service-connect-agent' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202983

File Name: al2_ALASECS-2024-038.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/23/2024

Updated: 7/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-38525

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ecs-service-connect-agent

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-38525

Detections

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