openSUSE Security Update : cgit (openSUSE-2015-436)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 84335

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The git web frontend cgit was updated to 0.11.2 to fix security issues and bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

- CVE-2014-9390: arbitrary command execution vulnerability on case-insensitive file systems in git. Malicious commits could affect client users on all platforms using case-insensitive file systems when using vulnerable git versions.

In addition cgit was updated to 0.11.2 with minor improvements and bug fixes.

The embedded git version was updated to 2.4.3.

Solution

Update the affected cgit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910756

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 84335

File Name: openSUSE-2015-436.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/23/2015

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cgit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cgit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cgit-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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: 6/12/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2020

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Malicious Git and Mercurial HTTP Server For CVE-2014-9390)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9390