Amazon Linux AMI : php7-pear (ALAS-2021-1466)

high Nessus Plugin ID 145000

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of php7-pear installed on the remote host is prior to 1.10.12-4.30. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2021-1466 advisory.

 - Archive_Tar through 1.4.10 allows an unserialization attack because phar: is blocked but PHAR: is not blocked. (CVE-2020-28948)

 - Archive_Tar through 1.4.10 has :// filename sanitization only to address phar attacks, and thus any other stream-wrapper attack (such as file:// to overwrite files) can still succeed. (CVE-2020-28949)

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

Solution

Run 'yum update php7-pear' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2021-1466.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28948

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28949

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 145000

File Name: ala_ALAS-2021-1466.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/14/2021

Updated: 2/25/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28949

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Temporal Vector: E:F/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

Temporal Vector: E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php7-pear, cpe:/o:amazon:linux

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2020

Exploitable With

Metasploit (PEAR Archive_Tar 1.4.10 Arbitrary File Write)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28948, CVE-2020-28949

ALAS: 2021-1466