git-annex is vulnerable to a private data exposure and exfiltration attack. It could expose the content of files located outside the git-annex repository, or content from a private web server on localhost or the LAN.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - git-annex is vulnerable to a private data exposure and exfiltration attack. It could expose the content of     files located outside the git-annex repository, or content from a private web server on localhost or the     LAN. (CVE-2018-10857)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for git-annex to version 6.20180626 fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2018-10857: Prevent file content disclosure by     refusing to download content that cannot be verified     with a hash, from encrypted special remotes and glacier     (bsc#1098062).

  - CVE-2018-10859: Prevent local gpg encrypted file     disclosure by refusing to download content that cannot     be verified with a hash, from encrypted special remotes     (bsc#1098364).

This update brings many other bug fixes and new features.
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex-6.20180626/changelog has a detailed list of changes.

Update to 6.20180626 Security fix for CVE-2018-10857 and CVE-2018-10859

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

The git-annex package was found to have multiple vulnerabilities when operating on untrusted data that could lead to arbitrary command execution and encrypted data exfiltration.

CVE-2017-12976

git-annex before 6.20170818 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via an ssh URL with an initial dash character in the hostname, as demonstrated by an ssh://-eProxyCommand= URL, a related issue to CVE-2017-9800, CVE-2017-12836, CVE-2017-1000116, and CVE-2017-1000117.

CVE-2018-10857

git-annex is vulnerable to a private data exposure and exfiltration attack. It could expose the content of files located outside the git-annex repository, or content from a private web server on localhost or the LAN.

CVE-2018-10859

git-annex is vulnerable to an Information Exposure when decrypting files. A malicious server for a special remote could trick git-annex into decrypting a file that was encrypted to the user's gpg key. This attack could be used to expose encrypted data that was never stored in git-annex

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 5.20141125+oops-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your git-annex packages.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255683	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-10857	Nessus	Misc.	high
123205	openSUSE Security Update : git-annex (openSUSE-2019-497)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
120859	Fedora 28 : git-annex (2018-e22c8eb218)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
117296	Debian DLA-1495-1 : git-annex security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
111015	Fedora 27 : git-annex (2018-7e8c49a451)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
110937	openSUSE Security Update : git-annex (openSUSE-2018-697)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2018-10857

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Tenable Plugins

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