Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : OpenStack vulnerability (USN-6241-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178750

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6241-1 advisory.

- A flaw was found in OpenStack due to an inconsistency between Cinder and Nova. This issue can be triggered intentionally or by accident. A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by detaching one of their volumes from Cinder. The highest impact is to confidentiality. (CVE-2023-2088)

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 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6241-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 178750

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6241-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/24/2023

Updated: 7/24/2023

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: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2088

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cinder-api, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cinder-backup, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cinder-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cinder-scheduler, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cinder-volume, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ironic-api, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ironic-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ironic-conductor, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-ajax-console-proxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-api, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-api-metadata, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-api-os-compute, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-api-os-volume, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-cells, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-ironic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-kvm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-libvirt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-lxc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-qemu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-vmware, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-compute-xen, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-conductor, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-novncproxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-scheduler, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-serialproxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-spiceproxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nova-volume, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:os-brick-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-cinder, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-glance-store, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-ironic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-nova, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-os-brick

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2088

USN: 6241-1