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Amazon Linux 2 : perl-Module-ScanDeps (ALAS-2025-2738)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214630

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of perl-Module-ScanDeps installed on the remote host is prior to 1.10-3. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2738 advisory.

 Qualys discovered that if unsanitized input was used with the library Modules::ScanDeps, before version 1.36 a local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary shell commands by open()ing a pesky pipe (such as passing commands| as a filename) or by passing arbitrary strings to eval(). (CVE-2024-10224)

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 perl-Module-ScanDeps' to update your system.

See Also

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

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-10224.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2025-2738.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214630

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-2738.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2025

Updated: 1/27/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-10224

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-module-scandeps

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-10224