RHEL 8 : perl-App-cpanminus:1.7044 (RHSA-2024:10219)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 211907

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for perl-App-cpanminus:1.7044.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10219 advisory.

The panminus is a script to get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN.

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:1.7044 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:10219.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308078

http://www.nessus.org/u?344214ee

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10219

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 211907

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-10219.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

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-module-cpanfile, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cpan-meta-check, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-parse-pmfile, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-string-shellquote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-pushd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cpan-distnameinfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-app-cpanminus, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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