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EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : expat (EulerOS-SA-2024-2166)

high Nessus Plugin ID 205979

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the expat package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 libexpat through 2.6.1 allows an XML Entity Expansion attack when there is isolated use of external parsers (created via XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate).(CVE-2024-28757)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS Virtualization expat 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 expat packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7cf417a4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 205979

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2166.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 8/21/2024

Updated: 11/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2024-28757

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:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.11.1, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:expat

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28757

IAVA: 2024-A-0192-S