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RHEL 8 : shadow-utils (RHSA-2023:7112)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185670

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for shadow-utils.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7112 advisory.

 - shadow-utils: possible password leak during passwd(1) change (CVE-2023-4641)

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 shadow-utils package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7112.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?819248f8

http://www.nessus.org/u?c879b1d4

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1984740

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1994269

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2012929

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215945

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7112

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185670

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7112.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2023-4641

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shadow-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shadow-utils-subid, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shadow-utils-subid-devel

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: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4641

CWE: 303

RHSA: 2023:7112