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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Prometheus Alertmanager vulnerability (USN-6935-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 204925

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6935-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that prometheus-alertmanager didn't properly sanitize

 input it received through an API endpoint. An attacker with permission to

 send requests to this endpoint could potentially inject arbitrary code.

 On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, this vulnerability is only

 present if the UI has been explicitly activated.

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 golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager-dev and / or prometheus-alertmanager packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6935-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 204925

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6935-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2024

Updated: 7/31/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-40577

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:prometheus-alertmanager

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-40577

USN: 6935-1