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Amazon Linux 2 : rust, --advisory ALAS2-2025-2804 (ALAS-2025-2804)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 233789

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of rust installed on the remote host is prior to 1.82.0-4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2804 advisory.

 The openssl crate before 0.10.55 for Rust allows an out-of-bounds read via an empty string to X509VerifyParamRef::set_host. (CVE-2023-53159)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

Solution

Run 'yum update rust' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-2804' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2025-2804.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2023-53159.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 233789

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-2804.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/2/2025

Updated: 9/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-53159

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-toolset-srpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-debugger-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cargo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-std-static, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rustfmt, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-analyzer, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-src, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:clippy, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-toolset, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-gdb

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-53159