Amazon Linux 2 : cups (ALAS-2024-2628)

low Nessus Plugin ID 206017

Synopsis

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

Description

The version of cups installed on the remote host is prior to 1.6.3-51. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2628 advisory.

A Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the packaging of cups of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS, SUSE Manager Server 4.0, SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9; openSUSE Leap 15.2, Factory allows local attackers with control of the lp users to create files as root with 0644 permissions without the ability to set the content. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS cups versions prior to 1.3.9. SUSE Manager Server 4.0 cups versions prior to 2.2.7. SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 cups versions prior to 1.7.5. openSUSE Leap 15.2 cups versions prior to 2.2.7. openSUSE Factory cups version 2.3.3op2-2.1 and prior versions. (CVE-2021-25317)

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 cups' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2628.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-25317.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 206017

File Name: al2_ALAS-2024-2628.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/21/2024

Updated: 8/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-25317

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-ipptool, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-lpd, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25317