CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
43.4%
It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-102 advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory ALAS2022-2022-102.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(164740);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/12");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-4115");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2022-A-0055");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2022 : (ALAS2022-2022-102)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2022 host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-102 advisory.
- There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process
file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit
process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned
(CVE-2021-4115)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2022/ALAS-2022-102.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-4115.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'dnf update --releasever=2022.0.20220628 polkit' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-4115");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/02/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/06/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/09/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-debugsource");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-docs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-libs-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2022");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "-2022")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2022", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'polkit-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debuginfo-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debuginfo-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debuginfo-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debugsource-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debugsource-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debugsource-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-devel-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-devel-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-devel-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-docs-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.120-1.amzn2022.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (reference && release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:release, rpm:exists_check))) {
if (rpm_check(release:release, sp:sp, cpu:cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_NOTE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "polkit / polkit-debuginfo / polkit-debugsource / etc");
}
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
43.4%