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Amazon Linux AMI : jakarta-taglibs-standard (ALAS-2015-595)

2015-09-2300:00:00
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It was found that the Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL) allowed the processing of untrusted XML documents to utilize external entity references, which could access resources on the host system and, potentially, allowing arbitrary code execution.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2015-595.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(86073);
  script_version("2.5");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/05/16 12:23:13");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-0254");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2015-595");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2015:1695");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : jakarta-taglibs-standard (ALAS-2015-595)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"It was found that the Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL) allowed the
processing of untrusted XML documents to utilize external entity
references, which could access resources on the host system and,
potentially, allowing arbitrary code execution."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-595.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Run 'yum update jakarta-taglibs-standard' to update your system."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:jakarta-taglibs-standard");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/09/22");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/09/23");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  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 != "A")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

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


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"jakarta-taglibs-standard-1.1.1-11.7.9.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc-1.1.1-11.7.9.amzn1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "jakarta-taglibs-standard / jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
amazonlinuxjakarta-taglibs-standardp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:jakarta-taglibs-standard
amazonlinuxjakarta-taglibs-standard-javadocp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc
amazonlinuxcpe:/o:amazon:linux