CentOS 7 : dovecot (CESA-2020:1062)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135329

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1062 advisory.

- dovecot: Improper certificate validation (CVE-2019-3814)

- dovecot: Buffer overflow in indexer-worker process results in privilege escalation (CVE-2019-7524)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected dovecot packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e1fa041f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135329

File Name: centos_RHSA-2020-1062.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/10/2020

Updated: 3/19/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-7524

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:centos:centos:dovecot, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-pigeonhole, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3814, CVE-2019-7524

RHSA: 2020:1062