GLSA-202407-27 : ExifTool: Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 204127

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202407-27 (ExifTool: Multiple vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ExifTool. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo 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

All ExifTool users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=media-libs/exiftool-12.42

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 204127

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202407-27.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 7/24/2024

Updated: 7/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23935

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:exiftool

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2021

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 12/1/2021

Exploitable With

Metasploit (ExifTool DjVu ANT Perl injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22204, CVE-2022-23935

Detections

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