RHEL 7 : librepo (RHSA-2020:5012)

high Nessus Plugin ID 142701

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5012 advisory.

- librepo: missing path validation in repomd.xml may lead to directory traversal (CVE-2020-14352)

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 librepo, librepo-devel and / or python-librepo packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14352

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5012

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1866498

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 142701

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-5012.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2020

Updated: 5/25/2023

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: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14352

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librepo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librepo-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-librepo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14352

CWE: 22

IAVB: 2020-B-0055

RHSA: 2020:5012