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CentOS 7 : plexus-archiver (CESA-2018:1836)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110536

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for plexus-archiver is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The Plexus project provides a full software stack for creating and executing software projects. Based on the Plexus container, the applications can utilise component-oriented programming to build modular, reusable components that can easily be assembled and reused.
The plexus-archiver component provides functions to create and extract archives.

Security Fix(es) :

* plexus-archiver: arbitrary file write vulnerability / arbitrary code execution using a specially crafted zip file (CVE-2018-1002200)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Danny Grander (Snyk) for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected plexus-archiver packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3923376f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110536

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-1836.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/15/2018

Updated: 12/31/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment 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 Score Source: CVE-2018-1002200

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: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:plexus-archiver, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:plexus-archiver-javadoc, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1002200

RHSA: 2018:1836