RHEL 9 : curl (RHSA-2023:6679)

high Nessus Plugin ID 185089

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for curl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6679 advisory.

- curl: TELNET option IAC injection (CVE-2023-27533)

- curl: SFTP path ~ resolving discrepancy (CVE-2023-27534)

- curl: GSS delegation too eager connection re-use (CVE-2023-27536)

- curl: SSH connection too eager reuse still (CVE-2023-27538)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL curl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:6679.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 185089

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6679.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/7/2023

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: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27533

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27534

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl-minimal

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27533, CVE-2023-27534, CVE-2023-27536, CVE-2023-27538

CWE: 22, 305, 75

IAVA: 2023-A-0153-S, 2023-A-0531-S

RHSA: 2023:6679

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