RHEL 8 : curl (RHSA-2024:1601)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192856

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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 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1601 advisory.

- curl: more POST-after-PUT confusion (CVE-2023-28322)

- curl: cookie injection with none file (CVE-2023-38546)

- curl: information disclosure by exploiting a mixed case flaw (CVE-2023-46218)

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-2024:1601.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192856

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1601.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/2/2024

Updated: 4/10/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46218

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl-devel, 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: 4/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28322, CVE-2023-38546, CVE-2023-46218

CWE: 201, 440, 73

IAVA: 2023-A-0259-S, 2023-A-0531-S, 2023-A-0674-S

RHSA: 2024:1601

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