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Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: cmake / curl / mysql (CVE-2024-9681)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 215540

Synopsis

The remote Azure Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The version of cmake / curl / mysql installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-9681 advisory.

 - When curl is asked to use HSTS, the expiry time for a subdomain might overwrite a parent domain's cache entry, making it end sooner or later than otherwise intended. This affects curl using applications that enable HSTS and use URLs with the insecure `HTTP://` scheme and perform transfers with hosts like `x.example.com` as well as `example.com` where the first host is a subdomain of the second host. (The HSTS cache either needs to have been populated manually or there needs to have been previous HTTPS accesses done as the cache needs to have entries for the domains involved to trigger this problem.) When `x.example.com` responds with `Strict-Transport-Security:` headers, this bug can make the subdomain's expiry timeout *bleed over* and get set for the parent domain `example.com` in curl's HSTS cache. The result of a triggered bug is that HTTP accesses to `example.com` get converted to HTTPS for a different period of time than what was asked for by the origin server. If `example.com` for example stops supporting HTTPS at its expiry time, curl might then fail to access `http://example.com` until the (wrongly set) timeout expires. This bug can also expire the parent's entry *earlier*, thus making curl inadvertently switch back to insecure HTTP earlier than otherwise intended. (CVE-2024-9681)

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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9681

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 215540

File Name: azure_linux_CVE-2024-9681.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 2/10/2025

Updated: 2/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9681

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:mysql-devel, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:cmake, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:curl-libs, x-cpe:/o:microsoft:azure_linux, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:curl-devel, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:mysql, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:cmake-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-9681

IAVA: 2024-A-0708-S