In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination, allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the keepalived-2.2.4-2.el9 build changelog.

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.06, has keepalived packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of keepalived installed on the remote host is prior to 1.3.5-16. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2168 advisory.

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3388 advisory.

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

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 NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has keepalived packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-038 advisory.

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3232-1 advisory.

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2923-1 advisory.

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

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 Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2022:1930 advisory.

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2022:1930 advisory.

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1930 advisory.

  - keepalived: dbus access control bypass (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2022:1930 advisory.

  - keepalived: dbus access control bypass (CVE-2021-44225)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the keepalived package has been released.

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 21.04 / 21.10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5188-1 advisory.

  - In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination,     allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some     situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property (CVE-2021-44225)

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
191363	CentOS 9 : keepalived-2.2.4-2.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
187354	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 : keepalived Vulnerability (NS-SA-2023-0097)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	medium
178836	Amazon Linux 2 : keepalived (ALAS-2023-2168)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
174041	Debian DLA-3388-1 : keepalived - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
170828	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2023-1261)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
168932	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : keepalived Vulnerability (NS-SA-2022-0105)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	medium
165632	Amazon Linux 2022 : (ALAS2022-2022-038)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
164941	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : keepalived (SUSE-SU-2022:3232-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
164465	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : keepalived (SUSE-SU-2022:2923-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
161547	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2022-1734)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
161346	Rocky Linux 8 : keepalived (RLSA-2022:1930)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	medium
161145	AlmaLinux 8 : keepalived (ALSA-2022:1930)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	medium
160997	RHEL 8 : keepalived (RHSA-2022:1930)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
160918	CentOS 8 : keepalived (CESA-2022:1930)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
160692	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.0 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2022-1696)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
160045	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2022-1465)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
160041	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2022-1474)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
159871	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2022-1375)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
159866	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2022-1401)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
159264	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2022-1351)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
158542	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2022-1307)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
158538	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : keepalived (EulerOS-SA-2022-1291)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
156591	Photon OS 3.0: Keepalived PHSA-2022-3.0-0348	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
156042	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Keepalived vulnerability (USN-5188-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

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