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Amazon Linux 2 : postgresql (ALASPOSTGRESQL13-2024-006)

2024-03-0600:00:00
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amazon linux 2
postgresql
vulnerability
refresh materialized view concurrently
privilege drop
cve-2024-0985
nessus

8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

8.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

19.4%

The version of postgresql installed on the remote host is prior to 13.14-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2POSTGRESQL13-2024-006 advisory.

  • Late privilege drop in REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the command issuer. The command intends to run SQL functions as the owner of the materialized view, enabling safe refresh of untrusted materialized views. The victim is a superuser or member of one of the attacker’s roles. The attack requires luring the victim into running REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY on the attacker’s materialized view. As part of exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker creates functions that use CREATE RULE to convert the internally-built temporary table to a view. Versions before PostgreSQL 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18 are affected. The only known exploit does not work in PostgreSQL 16 and later. For defense in depth, PostgreSQL 16.2 adds the protections that older branches are using to fix their vulnerability. (CVE-2024-0985)

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 2 Security Advisory ALASPOSTGRESQL13-2024-006.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(191611);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/05/24");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2024-0985");
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2024-B-0009-S");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : postgresql (ALASPOSTGRESQL13-2024-006)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of postgresql installed on the remote host is prior to 13.14-1. It is, therefore, affected by a
vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2POSTGRESQL13-2024-006 advisory.

  - Late privilege drop in REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to
    execute arbitrary SQL functions as the command issuer. The command intends to run SQL functions as the
    owner of the materialized view, enabling safe refresh of untrusted materialized views. The victim is a
    superuser or member of one of the attacker's roles. The attack requires luring the victim into running
    REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY on the attacker's materialized view. As part of exploiting this
    vulnerability, the attacker creates functions that use CREATE RULE to convert the internally-built
    temporary table to a view. Versions before PostgreSQL 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18 are affected. The only
    known exploit does not work in PostgreSQL 16 and later. For defense in depth, PostgreSQL 16.2 adds the
    protections that older branches are using to fix their vulnerability. (CVE-2024-0985)

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/AL2/ALASPOSTGRESQL13-2024-006.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-0985.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update postgresql' to update your system.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  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:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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-2024-0985");

  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:"2024/02/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/02/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/03/06");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-contrib");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-docs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-llvmjit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-plperl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-plpython3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-pltcl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-private-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-private-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-server");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-server-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-static");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-test");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-test-rpm-macros");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-upgrade");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-upgrade-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  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) 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("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 != "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);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'postgresql-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-contrib-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-contrib-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-debuginfo-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-debuginfo-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-docs-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-docs-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-llvmjit-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-llvmjit-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-plperl-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-plperl-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-plpython3-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-plpython3-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-pltcl-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-pltcl-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-private-devel-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-private-devel-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-private-libs-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-private-libs-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-server-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-server-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-server-devel-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-server-devel-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-static-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-static-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-test-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-test-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-test-rpm-macros-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-devel-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'},
    {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-devel-13.14-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'postgresql13'}
];

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_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, "postgresql / postgresql-contrib / postgresql-debuginfo / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
amazonlinuxpostgresql-llvmjitp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-llvmjit
amazonlinuxpostgresql-contribp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-contrib
amazonlinuxpostgresql-plpython3p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-plpython3
amazonlinuxpostgresql-private-develp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-private-devel
amazonlinuxpostgresqlp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql
amazonlinuxpostgresql-private-libsp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-private-libs
amazonlinuxpostgresql-upgrade-develp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-upgrade-devel
amazonlinuxpostgresql-docsp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-docs
amazonlinuxpostgresql-pltclp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-pltcl
amazonlinuxpostgresql-server-develp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:postgresql-server-devel
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8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

8.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

19.4%