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Ubuntu 18.10 / 19.04 : aria2 vulnerability (USN-3965-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 124676

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Dhiraj Mishra discovered that aria2 incorrectly stored authentication information. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain credentials.

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Solution

Update the affected aria2 and / or libaria2-0 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3965-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 124676

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3965-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/7/2019

Updated: 5/11/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:aria2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaria2-0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3500

USN: 3965-1