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Amazon Linux 2 : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2019-1262)

2019-08-1200:00:00
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CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

6.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.043

Percentile

92.5%

It was found that encrypted connections did not honor the ‘ioblocktimeout’ parameter to end blocking requests. As a result, an unauthenticated attacker could repeatedly start a sufficient number of encrypted connections to block all workers, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-3883)

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2019-1262.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(127464);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/05/07");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-3883");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2019-1262");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2019-1262)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It was found that encrypted connections did not honor the
'ioblocktimeout' parameter to end blocking requests. As a result, an
unauthenticated attacker could repeatedly start a sufficient number of
encrypted connections to block all workers, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2019-3883)");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2019-1262.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update 389-ds-base' to update your system.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-3883");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/04/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/08/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/08/12");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:389-ds-base");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:389-ds-base-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:389-ds-base-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:389-ds-base-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:389-ds-base-snmp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
  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) 2019-2024 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("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

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


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"389-ds-base-1.3.8.4-25.1.amzn2.0.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.3.8.4-25.1.amzn2.0.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"389-ds-base-devel-1.3.8.4-25.1.amzn2.0.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"389-ds-base-libs-1.3.8.4-25.1.amzn2.0.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"389-ds-base-snmp-1.3.8.4-25.1.amzn2.0.1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "389-ds-base / 389-ds-base-debuginfo / 389-ds-base-devel / etc");
}

CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

6.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.043

Percentile

92.5%