It was found that the fix for CVE-2018-14648 in 389-ds-base, versions 1.4.0.x before 1.4.0.17, was incorrectly applied in RHEL 7.5. An attacker would still be able to provoke excessive CPU consumption leading to a denial of service.

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

  - It was found that the fix for CVE-2018-14648 in 389-ds-base, versions 1.4.0.x before 1.4.0.17, was     incorrectly applied in RHEL 7.5. An attacker would still be able to provoke excessive CPU consumption     leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2019-10171)

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

According to the versions of the 389-ds-base packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - It was found that the fix for CVE-2018-14648 in     389-ds-base, versions 1.4.0.x before 1.4.0.17, was     incorrectly applied in RHEL 7.5. An attacker would     still be able to provoke excessive CPU consumption     leading to a denial of service.(CVE-2019-10171)

  - A flaw was found in the 'deref' plugin of 389-ds-base     where it could use the 'search' permission to display     attribute values. In some configurations, this could     allow an authenticated attacker to view private     attributes, such as password hashes.(CVE-2019-14824)

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1789 advisory.

    389 Directory Server is an LDAP version 3 (LDAPv3) compliant server. The base packages include the     Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server and command-line utilities for server administration.

    Security Fix(es):

    * 389-ds-base: Insufficient fix for CVE-2018-14648 Denial of Service in RHEL-7.5 (CVE-2019-10171)

    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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
221871	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-10171	Nessus	Misc.	high
145099	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : 389-ds-base (EulerOS-SA-2021-1058)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
144229	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : 389-ds-base (EulerOS-SA-2020-2539)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
126757	RHEL 7 : 389-ds-base (RHSA-2019:1789)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2019-10171

high

Tenable Plugins

high

medium

medium

high