This issue only affects the ‘curl’ command line utility. Additionally, this is only an issue when using the ‘-J’ (with the ‘-O’ option) and ‘-i’ command line options combined. In most cases, there is nothing to gain for a local attacker here: the curl command line utility is likely running with the same privileges as the user, and thus the user can already overwrite all the files curl could overwrite. However, a local user will have to call curl with the ‘-J’ and ‘-i’ command line options while requesting content from a malicious server, which then opens up an opportunity for the malicious server to overwrite local files. (CVE-2020-8177)
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2020-1411.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(139091);
script_version("1.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/27");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-8177");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2020-1411");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2020-1411)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"This issue only affects the 'curl' command line utility. Additionally,
this is only an issue when using the '-J' (with the '-O' option) and
'-i' command line options combined. In most cases, there is nothing to
gain for a local attacker here: the curl command line utility is
likely running with the same privileges as the user, and thus the user
can already overwrite all the files curl could overwrite. However, a
local user will have to call curl with the '-J' and '-i' command line
options while requesting content from a malicious server, which then
opens up an opportunity for the malicious server to overwrite local
files. (CVE-2020-8177)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2020-1411.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update curl' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/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:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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-2020-8177");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/07/29");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/07/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:curl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:curl-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libcurl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libcurl-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
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) 2020-2024 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 != "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:"curl-7.61.1-12.94.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-12.94.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"libcurl-7.61.1-12.94.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"libcurl-devel-7.61.1-12.94.amzn1")) 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, "curl / curl-debuginfo / libcurl / libcurl-devel");
}