EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : mercurial (EulerOS-SA-2018-1178)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 110842

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the mercurial package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- Mercurial is a fast, lightweight source control management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

- Security fix(es):

- Mercurial version 4.5 and earlier contains a Incorrect Access Control (CWE-285) vulnerability in Protocol server that can result in Unauthorized data access.
This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. (CVE-2018-1000132)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mercurial packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?42a7c90e

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 110842

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1178.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 7/3/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:mercurial, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 6/15/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000132