EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : tpm2-tss (EulerOS-SA-2021-1727)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 148619

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the tpm2-tss package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- Missing initialization of a variable in the TPM2 source may allow a privileged user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access. This affects tpm2-tss before 3.0.1 and before 2.4.3.(CVE-2020-24455)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected tpm2-tss package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5b8ff13c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 148619

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1727.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 4/15/2021

Updated: 1/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-24455

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:tpm2-tss, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.9.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-24455