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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0137: varnish (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0137)

🗓️ 14 May 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Vulnerability in Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 identified. Package updates available for CVE-2023-44487.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Advisory ALINUX3-SA-2023:0137.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(236113);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/05/15");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-44487");
  script_xref(name:"CISA-KNOWN-EXPLOITED", value:"2023/10/31");
  script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2024-0004");

  script_name(english:"Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0137: varnish (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0137)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
ALINUX3-SA-2023:0137 advisory.

    Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2023-44487:
    The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation
    can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

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:"http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20230137.xml");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected varnish, varnish-devel and / or varnish-docs packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  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:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_threat_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/E:A");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-44487");

  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:"2023/10/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/11/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/05/14");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:varnish");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:varnish-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:varnish-docs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Alibaba/release", "Host/Alibaba/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Alibaba/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Alibaba Cloud Linux' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Alibaba Cloud Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Alibaba Cloud Linux release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Alibaba Cloud Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^3([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Alibaba Cloud Linux 3.x', 'Alibaba Cloud Linux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/Alibaba/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('aarch64' >!< cpu && 'x86_64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Alibaba Cloud Linux', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'varnish-6.0.8-3.1.al8.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'0'},
    {'reference':'varnish-6.0.8-3.1.al8.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'0'},
    {'reference':'varnish-devel-6.0.8-3.1.al8.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'0'},
    {'reference':'varnish-devel-6.0.8-3.1.al8.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'0'},
    {'reference':'varnish-docs-6.0.8-3.1.al8.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'0'},
    {'reference':'varnish-docs-6.0.8-3.1.al8.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'0'}
];

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;
  var cves = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'Alibaba Linux ' + 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 (!empty_or_null(package_array['cves'])) cves = package_array['cves'];
  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, cves:cves)) 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, 'varnish / varnish-devel / varnish-docs');
}

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15 May 2025 00:00Current
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Vulners AI Score7.2
CVSS 3.17.5
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