Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0005: net-snmp (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0005)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 236722

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 a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2021:0005 advisory.

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

CVE-2020-15862:
Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 has Improper Privilege Management because SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB provides the ability to run arbitrary commands as root.

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

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 236722

File Name: alinux3_sa_2021-0005.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: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15862

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-agent-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-agent-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-gui, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-perl, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-perl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-utils, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-libs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15862

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