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openSUSE 15 Security Update : timescaledb (openSUSE-SU-2023:0046-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171476

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0046-1 advisory.

 - Timescale TimescaleDB 1.x and 2.x before 2.5.2 may allow privilege escalation during extension installation. The installation process uses commands such as CREATE x IF NOT EXIST that allow an unprivileged user to precreate objects. These objects will be used by the installer (which executes as Superuser), leading to privilege escalation. In order to be able to take advantage of this, an unprivileged user would need to be able to create objects in a database and then get a Superuser to install TimescaleDB into their database. (In the fixed versions, the installation aborts when it finds that an object already exists.) (CVE-2022-24128)

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 postgresql12-timescaledb, postgresql13-timescaledb, postgresql14-timescaledb and / or postgresql15-timescaledb packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1197063

http://www.nessus.org/u?53a63ead

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-24128

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171476

File Name: openSUSE-2023-0046-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2023

Updated: 2/15/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24128

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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:novell:opensuse:postgresql12-timescaledb, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13-timescaledb, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql14-timescaledb, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql15-timescaledb, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24128