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NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02 : shadow Vulnerability (NS-SA-2025-0198)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 242824

Synopsis

The remote NewStart CGSL host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 7.02, has shadow packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

 - A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from the memory.
 (CVE-2023-4641)

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

Solution

Upgrade the vulnerable CGSL shadow packages. Note that updated packages may not be available yet. Please contact ZTE for more information.

See Also

https://security.gd-linux.com/notice/NS-SA-2025-0198

https://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2023-4641

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 242824

File Name: newstart_cgsl_NS-SA-2025-0198_shadow.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/25/2025

Updated: 7/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4641

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:zte:cgsl_main:7, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:shadow-core, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:shadow

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4641