RHEL 9 : booth (RHSA-2022:6580)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 169721

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for booth.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6580 advisory.

- booth: authfile directive in booth config file is completely ignored. (CVE-2022-2553)

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 RHEL booth package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:6580.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e4061ed7

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6580

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2109251

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 169721

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6580.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/10/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2553

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:booth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:booth-arbitrator, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:booth-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:booth-site, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:booth-test

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: 9/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2553

CWE: 287

RHSA: 2022:6580