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EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : wget (EulerOS-SA-2024-2518)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 208383

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.(CVE-2024-38428)

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2564a9d4

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 208383

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2518.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/9/2024

Updated: 10/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-38428

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:wget, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-38428