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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2218)

high Nessus Plugin ID 151766

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the grub2 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06.
 The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grub's memory layout. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.(CVE-2020-27779)

 - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06, where it incorrectly enables the usage of the ACPI command when Secure Boot is enabled. This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to craft a Secondary System Description Table (SSDT) containing code to overwrite the Linux kernel lockdown variable content directly into memory. The table is further loaded and executed by the kernel, defeating its Secure Boot lockdown and allowing the attacker to load unsigned code. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity, as well as system availability.(CVE-2020-14372)

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 grub2 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?db9e7067

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 151766

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-2218.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 7/16/2021

Updated: 12/8/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27779

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-ia32, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-ia32-cdboot, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-x64, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-x64-cdboot, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-x64-modules, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-pc, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-pc-modules, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools-extra, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools-minimal, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14372, CVE-2020-27779