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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : SoS vulnerability (USN-5636-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 165457

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5636-1 advisory.

 - It was found that the ovirt-log-collector/sosreport collects the RHV admin password unfiltered. Fixed in:
 sos-4.2-20.el8_6, ovirt-log-collector-4.4.7-2.el8ev (CVE-2022-2806)

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 sosreport package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5636-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 165457

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5636-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/26/2022

Updated: 7/10/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2806

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sosreport

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2806

USN: 5636-1