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Amazon Linux 2023 : libudisks2, libudisks2-devel, udisks2 (ALAS2023-2025-1178)

🗓️ 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Udisks2 flaw on Amazon Linux 2023 allows unprivileged users to create loop devices via a message bus with a negative index.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory ALAS2023-2025-1178.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(264835);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/10/30");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2025-8067");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2023 : libudisks2, libudisks2-devel, udisks2 (ALAS2023-2025-1178)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1178 advisory.

    A flaw was found in the Udisks daemon, where it allows unprivileged users to create loop devices using the
    D-BUS system. This is achieved via the loop device handler, which handles requests sent through the D-BUS
    interface. As two of the parameters of this handle, it receives the file descriptor list and index
    specifying the file where the loop device should be backed. The function itself validates the index value
    to ensure it isn't bigger than the maximum value allowed. However, it fails to validate the lower bound,
    allowing the index parameter to be a negative value. Under these circumstances, an attacker can cause the
    UDisks daemon to crash or perform a local privilege escalation by gaining access to files owned by
    privileged users. (CVE-2025-8067)

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.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2023/ALAS2023-2025-1178.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-8067.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'dnf update udisks2 --releasever 2023.8.20250915' or
  or 'dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2025-1178 --releasever 2023.8.20250915' to update your system.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C");
  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:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/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-2025-8067");

  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:"2025/08/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/09/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/09/15");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libudisks2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libudisks2-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libudisks2-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:udisks2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:udisks2-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:udisks2-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:udisks2-lsm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:udisks2-lsm-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:udisks2-lvm2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:udisks2-lvm2-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 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 alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "-2023")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2023", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'libudisks2-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libudisks2-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libudisks2-debuginfo-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libudisks2-debuginfo-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libudisks2-devel-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libudisks2-devel-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-debuginfo-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-debuginfo-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-debugsource-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-debugsource-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-lsm-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-lsm-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-lsm-debuginfo-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-lsm-debuginfo-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-lvm2-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-lvm2-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-lvm2-debuginfo-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'udisks2-lvm2-debuginfo-2.10.1-6.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', '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;
  var cves = 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 (!empty_or_null(package_array['cves'])) cves = package_array['cves'];
  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, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      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, "libudisks2 / libudisks2-debuginfo / libudisks2-devel / etc");
}

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30 Oct 2025 00:00Current
5.8Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.8
CVSS 3.18.5
EPSS0.0065
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