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openSUSE Security Update : nagios-nrpe (openSUSE-SU-2013:0621-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 74957

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

NRPE (the Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor) allows the passing of $() to plugins/scripts which, if run under bash, will execute that shell command under a subprocess and pass the output as a parameter to the called script. Using this, it is possible to get called scripts, such as check_http, to execute arbitrary commands under the uid that NRPE/nagios is running as (typically, 'nagios').

With this update NRPE will deny remote requests containing a bash command substitution.

Solution

Update the affected nagios-nrpe packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807241

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00039.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 74957

File Name: openSUSE-2013-301.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nagios-nrpe, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nagios-nrpe-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nagios-nrpe-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nagios-plugins-nrpe, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nagios-plugins-nrpe-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/25/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor Arbitrary Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1362