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Amazon Linux AMI : exim (ALAS-2021-1497)

2021-05-1200:00:00
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The version of exim installed on the remote host is prior to 4.92-1.27. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2021-1497 advisory.

  • Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters. Local users can alter the behavior of root processes because a recipient address can have a newline character. (CVE-2020-28015)

  • Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow in receive_add_recipient via an e-mail message with fifty million recipients. NOTE: remote exploitation may be difficult because of resource consumption. (CVE-2020-28017)

  • Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Use After Free in smtp_reset in certain situations that may be common for builds with OpenSSL. (CVE-2020-28018)

  • Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters. An authenticated remote SMTP client can insert newline characters into a spool file (which indirectly leads to remote code execution as root) via AUTH= in a MAIL FROM command. (CVE-2020-28021)

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 70300
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2021-1497.
##

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(149430);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/01/02");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2020-28015",
    "CVE-2020-28017",
    "CVE-2020-28018",
    "CVE-2020-28021"
  );
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2021-1497");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : exim (ALAS-2021-1497)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of exim installed on the remote host is prior to 4.92-1.27. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2021-1497 advisory.

  - Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters. Local users can alter the behavior of
    root processes because a recipient address can have a newline character. (CVE-2020-28015)

  - Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow in receive_add_recipient via an e-mail
    message with fifty million recipients. NOTE: remote exploitation may be difficult because of resource
    consumption. (CVE-2020-28017)

  - Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Use After Free in smtp_reset in certain situations that may be common for
    builds with OpenSSL. (CVE-2020-28018)

  - Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters. An authenticated remote SMTP client
    can insert newline characters into a spool file (which indirectly leads to remote code execution as root)
    via AUTH= in a MAIL FROM command. (CVE-2020-28021)

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/ALAS-2021-1497.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28015");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28017");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28018");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28021");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update exim' 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:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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-2020-28021");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-28018");

  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:"2021/05/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/05/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/05/12");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim-greylist");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim-mon");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim-mysql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim-pgsql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021-2024 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);

pkgs = [
    {'reference':'exim-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'exim-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'exim-debuginfo-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'exim-debuginfo-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'exim-greylist-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'exim-greylist-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'exim-mon-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'exim-mon-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'exim-mysql-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'exim-mysql-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'exim-pgsql-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'exim-pgsql-4.92-1.27.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  reference = NULL;
  release = NULL;
  cpu = NULL;
  el_string = NULL;
  rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  allowmaj = 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['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['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (reference && release) {
    if (rpm_check(release:release, cpu:cpu, reference:reference, 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
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "exim / exim-debuginfo / exim-greylist / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
amazonlinuxeximp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim
amazonlinuxexim-debuginfop-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim-debuginfo
amazonlinuxexim-greylistp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim-greylist
amazonlinuxexim-monp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim-mon
amazonlinuxexim-mysqlp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim-mysql
amazonlinuxexim-pgsqlp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:exim-pgsql
amazonlinuxcpe:/o:amazon:linux