RHEL 9 : perl-App-cpanminus (RHSA-2024:10218)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 211906

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for perl-App-cpanminus.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10218 advisory.

Why? It's dependency free, requires zero configuration, and stands alone but it's maintainable and extensible with plug-ins and friendly to shell scripting. When running, it requires only 10 MB of RAM.

Security Fix(es):

* perl-App-cpanminus: Insecure HTTP in App::cpanminus Allows Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-45321)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL perl-App-cpanminus package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:10218.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 211906

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-10218.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/27/2024

Updated: 11/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45321

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-app-cpanminus, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45321

RHSA: 2024:10218

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