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CentOS 9 : varnish-6.5.2-2.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191203

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for varnish.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the varnish-6.5.2-2.el9 build changelog.

 - HTTP/2 request smuggling attack via a large Content-Length header for a POST request (CVE-2021-36740)

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 CentOS 9 Stream varnish package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=13200

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191203

File Name: centos9_varnish-6_5_2-2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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-2021-36740

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:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:varnish, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:varnish-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:varnish-docs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36740