Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Cinder and os-brick vulnerability (USN-4420-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 138208

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

David Hill and Eric Harney discovered that Cinder and os-brick incorrectly handled ScaleIO backend credentials. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4420-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 138208

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4420-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2020

Updated: 10/21/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10755

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-cinder, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-os-brick, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-cinder, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-os-brick, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cinder-api, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cinder-backup, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cinder-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cinder-scheduler, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cinder-volume, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:os-brick-common

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10755

USN: 4420-1