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Fedora 27 : plexus-archiver (2018-6c55e1f79c)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110538

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix: arbitrary file write vulnerability / arbitrary code execution using a specially crafted zip file (CVE-2018-1002200)

A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in plexus-archiver when extracting a carefully crafted zip file which holds path traversal file names. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to write files outside the target directory and overwrite existing files with malicious code or vulnerable configurations.

Red Hat would like to thank Danny Grander (Snyk) for reporting this issue. External References:
https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability

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.

Solution

Update the affected plexus-archiver package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-6c55e1f79c

https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110538

File Name: fedora_2018-6c55e1f79c.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:plexus-archiver

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1002200