The version of nss installed on the remote host is prior to 3.53.1-7.87. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2021-1552 advisory.
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-2021-1552.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(155758);
script_version("1.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/22");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-43527");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2021-1552");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : nss (ALAS-2021-1552)");
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 nss installed on the remote host is prior to 3.53.1-7.87. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability
as referenced in the ALAS-2021-1552 advisory.
- NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow
when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures
encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS \#7, or PKCS \#12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for
certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how
they configure NSS. *Note: This vulnerability does NOT impact Mozilla Firefox.* However, email clients and
PDF viewers that use NSS for signature verification, such as Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Evolution and
Evince are believed to be impacted. This vulnerability affects NSS < 3.73 and NSS < 3.68.1.
(CVE-2021-43527)
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-2021-1552.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43527");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update nss' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/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:F/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-43527");
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:"2021/12/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/12/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/12/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-pkcs11-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-sysinit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-tools");
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) 2021-2023 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);
var release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
var 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);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'nss-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'nss-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'nss-devel-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'nss-devel-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'nss-pkcs11-devel-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'nss-pkcs11-devel-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'nss-sysinit-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'nss-sysinit-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'nss-tools-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'nss-tools-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var release = NULL;
var cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var 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
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "nss / nss-debuginfo / nss-devel / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
amazon | linux | nss | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss |
amazon | linux | nss-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | nss-devel | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-devel |
amazon | linux | nss-pkcs11-devel | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-pkcs11-devel |
amazon | linux | nss-sysinit | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-sysinit |
amazon | linux | nss-tools | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-tools |
amazon | linux | cpe:/o:amazon:linux |