Amazon Linux 2023 : cargo-c (ALAS2023-2026-1872)

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory ALAS2023-2026-1872.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(322058);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/06/22");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2026-5222", "CVE-2026-7598", "CVE-2026-44471");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2023 : cargo-c (ALAS2023-2026-1872)");

  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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1872 advisory.

    gitoxide is an implementation of git written in Rust. Prior to 0.21.1, a malicious tree can be constructed
    that will, when checked out with gitoxide, permit writing an attacker-controlled symlink into any existing
    directory the user has write access to. During checkout, all symlink index entries are deferred and
    created after regular files using a single shared gix_worktree::Stack. Internally, this uses a
    gix_fs::Stack. gix_fs::Stack::make_relative_path_current() caches validated path prefixes: when the
    previously-processed leaf component exactly matches the leading component(s) of the next path, the leaf-
    to-directory transition at gix-fs/src/stack.rs invokes only delegate.push_directory(), never
    delegate.push(). In gix_worktree::stack::delegate::StackDelegate, when the state member is
    State::CreateDirectoryAndAttributesStack, Attributes::push_directory() only loads attributes (from the
    ODB, in the clone case), and does not perform any other checks. The on-disk symlink_metadata() check and
    unlink-on-collision live in StackDelegate::push()'s invocation of create_leading_directory(), which is
    therefore bypassed for the cached prefix. The final symlink is created with plain
    std::os::unix::fs::symlink, which follows symlinks in parent directories. Therefore, it's possible to
    provide a tree with duplicate symlink and directory entries that exploits this. This vulnerability is
    fixed in 0.21.1. (CVE-2026-44471)

    Cargo between 1.68 and 1.96 incorrectly normalized the URLs of third-party registries using the sparse
    index protocol. If a hosting provider allowed multiple registries to be hosted with arbitrary names within
    the same domain, an attacker able to publish crates in a registry could obtain the credentials of others
    users of the same registry. The severity of the vulnerability is **low**, due to the extremely niche
    requirements needed to achieve the attack. (CVE-2026-5222)

    A security vulnerability has been detected in libssh2 up to 1.11.1. The impacted element is the function
    userauth_password of the file src/userauth.c. Such manipulation of the argument username_len/password_len
    leads to integer overflow. The attack may be launched remotely. The name of the patch is
    256d04b60d80bf1190e96b0ad1e91b2174d744b1. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.
    (CVE-2026-7598)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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/ALAS2023-2026-1872.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-2026-44471.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-5222.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-7598.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'dnf update rust-cargo-c --releasever 2023.12.20260622' or
  or 'dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2026-1872 --releasever 2023.12.20260622' to update your system.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_threat_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/E:P");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2026-7598");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2026-5222");

  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:"2026/05/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2026/06/22");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2026/06/22");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cargo-c");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cargo-c-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rust-cargo-c-debugsource");
  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) 2026 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("rpm2.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':'cargo-c-0.10.19-1.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'cargo-c-0.10.19-1.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'cargo-c-debuginfo-0.10.19-1.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'cargo-c-debuginfo-0.10.19-1.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'rust-cargo-c-debugsource-0.10.19-1.amzn2023.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'rust-cargo-c-debugsource-0.10.19-1.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_HOLE,
      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, "cargo-c / cargo-c-debuginfo / rust-cargo-c-debugsource");
}