Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0109: git (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0109)

high Nessus Plugin ID 236541

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2022:0109 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2019-1351:
A tampering vulnerability exists when Git for Visual Studio improperly handles virtual drive paths, aka 'Git for Visual Studio Tampering Vulnerability'.

CVE-2019-1354:
A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Git for Visual Studio improperly sanitizes input, aka 'Git for Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1352, CVE-2019-1387.

CVE-2019-1387:
An issue was found in Git before v2.24.1, v2.23.1, v2.22.2, v2.21.1, v2.20.2, v2.19.3, v2.18.2, v2.17.3, v2.16.6, v2.15.4, and v2.14.6. Recursive clones are currently affected by a vulnerability that is caused by too-lax validation of submodule names, allowing very targeted attacks via remote code execution in recursive clones.

CVE-2020-5260:
Affected versions of Git have a vulnerability whereby Git can be tricked into sending private credentials to a host controlled by an attacker. Git uses external credential helper programs to store and retrieve passwords or other credentials from secure storage provided by the operating system. Specially-crafted URLs that contain an encoded newline can inject unintended values into the credential helper protocol stream, causing the credential helper to retrieve the password for one server (e.g., good.example.com) for an HTTP request being made to another server (e.g., evil.example.com), resulting in credentials for the former being sent to the latter. There are no restrictions on the relationship between the two, meaning that an attacker can craft a URL that will present stored credentials for any host to a host of their choosing. The vulnerability can be triggered by feeding a malicious URL to git clone. However, the affected URLs look rather suspicious; the likely vector would be through systems which automatically clone URLs not visible to the user, such as Git submodules, or package systems built around Git. The problem has been patched in the versions published on April 14th, 2020, going back to v2.17.x. Anyone wishing to backport the change further can do so by applying commit 9a6bbee (the full release includes extra checks for git fsck, but that commit is sufficient to protect clients against the vulnerability). The patched versions are: 2.17.4, 2.18.3, 2.19.4, 2.20.3, 2.21.2, 2.22.3, 2.23.2, 2.24.2, 2.25.3, 2.26.1.

CVE-2020-11008:
Affected versions of Git have a vulnerability whereby Git can be tricked into sending private credentials to a host controlled by an attacker. This bug is similar to CVE-2020-5260(GHSA-qm7j-c969-7j4q). The fix for that bug still left the door open for an exploit where _some_ credential is leaked (but the attacker cannot control which one). Git uses external credential helper programs to store and retrieve passwords or other credentials from secure storage provided by the operating system. Specially-crafted URLs that are considered illegal as of the recently published Git versions can cause Git to send a blank pattern to helpers, missing hostname and protocol fields. Many helpers will interpret this as matching _any_ URL, and will return some unspecified stored password, leaking the password to an attacker's server. The vulnerability can be triggered by feeding a malicious URL to `git clone`. However, the affected URLs look rather suspicious; the likely vector would be through systems which automatically clone URLs not visible to the user, such as Git submodules, or package systems built around Git. The root of the problem is in Git itself, which should not be feeding blank input to helpers. However, the ability to exploit the vulnerability in practice depends on which helpers are in use. Credential helpers which are known to trigger the vulnerability: - Git's store helper - Git's cache helper - the osxkeychain helper that ships in Git's contrib directory Credential helpers which are known to be safe even with vulnerable versions of Git: - Git Credential Manager for Windows Any helper not in this list should be assumed to trigger the vulnerability.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 236541

File Name: alinux3_sa_2022-0109.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1354

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1387

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-credential-libsecret, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-subtree, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-daemon-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gitk, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-gui, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gitweb, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-core, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-core-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-all, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-email, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-daemon, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-svn, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:perl-git, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-credential-libsecret-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:perl-git-svn, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-instaweb, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:git-core-doc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1351, CVE-2019-1354, CVE-2019-1387, CVE-2020-11008, CVE-2020-5260

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