The version of ruby20 installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0.0.648-2.42. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1824 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 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2023-1824.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(181221);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/09/12");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-9224");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : ruby20 (ALAS-2023-1824)");
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 ruby20 installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0.0.648-2.42. It is, therefore, affected by a
vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1824 advisory.
- An issue was discovered in Oniguruma 6.2.0, as used in Oniguruma-mod in Ruby through 2.4.1 and mbstring in
PHP through 7.1.5. A stack out-of-bounds read occurs in match_at() during regular expression searching. A
logical error involving order of validation and access in match_at() could result in an out-of-bounds read
from a stack buffer. (CVE-2017-9224)
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-2023-1824.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2017-9224.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update ruby20' 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: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-2017-9224");
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:"2017/05/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/08/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/09/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-irb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-bigdecimal");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-io-console");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-psych");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygems20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygems20-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) 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("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 != "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':'ruby20-2.0.0.648-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby20-2.0.0.648-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby20-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby20-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby20-devel-2.0.0.648-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby20-devel-2.0.0.648-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby20-doc-2.0.0.648-2.42.amzn1', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby20-irb-2.0.0.648-2.42.amzn1', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby20-libs-2.0.0.648-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby20-libs-2.0.0.648-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem20-bigdecimal-1.2.0-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem20-bigdecimal-1.2.0-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem20-io-console-0.4.2-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem20-io-console-0.4.2-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem20-psych-2.0.0-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem20-psych-2.0.0-2.42.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygems20-2.0.14.1-2.42.amzn1', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygems20-devel-2.0.14.1-2.42.amzn1', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
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, "ruby20 / ruby20-debuginfo / ruby20-devel / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
amazon | linux | rubygem20-psych | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-psych |
amazon | linux | rubygems20-devel | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygems20-devel |
amazon | linux | ruby20-doc | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-doc |
amazon | linux | rubygem20-bigdecimal | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-bigdecimal |
amazon | linux | cpe:/o:amazon:linux | |
amazon | linux | ruby20 | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20 |
amazon | linux | ruby20-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | rubygems20 | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygems20 |
amazon | linux | ruby20-libs | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-libs |
amazon | linux | rubygem20-io-console | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-io-console |