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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : curl vulnerability (USN-7104-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211514

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7104-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that curl could overwrite the HSTS expiry of the parent domain with the subdomain's HSTS entry. This could lead to curl switching back to insecure HTTP earlier than otherwise intended, resulting in information exposure.

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 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7104-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211514

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7104-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2024

Updated: 11/18/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9681

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-nss, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-gnutls-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-openssl-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-nss-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3t64-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4t64, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-9681

IAVA: 2024-A-0708

USN: 7104-1