The Qualys Research Labs reported several vulnerabilities in Exim, a mail transport agent, which could result in local privilege escalation and remote code execution.
Details can be found in the Qualys advisory at https://www.qualys.com/2021/05/04/21nails/21nails.txt
For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.89-2+deb9u8.
We recommend that you upgrade your exim4 packages.
For the detailed security status of exim4 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/exim4
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-2650-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(149345);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/11");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2020-28007",
"CVE-2020-28008",
"CVE-2020-28009",
"CVE-2020-28011",
"CVE-2020-28012",
"CVE-2020-28013",
"CVE-2020-28014",
"CVE-2020-28015",
"CVE-2020-28017",
"CVE-2020-28019",
"CVE-2020-28020",
"CVE-2020-28021",
"CVE-2020-28022",
"CVE-2020-28023",
"CVE-2020-28024",
"CVE-2020-28025",
"CVE-2020-28026"
);
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2021-A-0216-S");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2650-1 : exim4 security update");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The Qualys Research Labs reported several vulnerabilities in Exim, a
mail transport agent, which could result in local privilege escalation
and remote code execution.
Details can be found in the Qualys advisory at
https://www.qualys.com/2021/05/04/21nails/21nails.txt
For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version
4.89-2+deb9u8.
We recommend that you upgrade your exim4 packages.
For the detailed security status of exim4 please refer to its security
tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/exim4
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00004.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/exim4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/exim4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.qualys.com/2021/05/04/21nails/21nails.txt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/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-2020-28026");
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:"2021/05/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/05/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-base");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-config");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-daemon-heavy");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-daemon-light");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-daemon-light-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:eximon4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Debian 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/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"exim4", reference:"4.89-2+deb9u8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"exim4-base", reference:"4.89-2+deb9u8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"exim4-config", reference:"4.89-2+deb9u8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-heavy", reference:"4.89-2+deb9u8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg", reference:"4.89-2+deb9u8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-light", reference:"4.89-2+deb9u8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-light-dbg", reference:"4.89-2+deb9u8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"exim4-dbg", reference:"4.89-2+deb9u8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"exim4-dev", reference:"4.89-2+deb9u8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"eximon4", reference:"4.89-2+deb9u8")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | exim4 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4 |
debian | debian_linux | exim4-base | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-base |
debian | debian_linux | exim4-config | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-config |
debian | debian_linux | exim4-daemon-heavy | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-daemon-heavy |
debian | debian_linux | exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg |
debian | debian_linux | exim4-daemon-light | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-daemon-light |
debian | debian_linux | exim4-daemon-light-dbg | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-daemon-light-dbg |
debian | debian_linux | exim4-dbg | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-dbg |
debian | debian_linux | exim4-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4-dev |
debian | debian_linux | eximon4 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:eximon4 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28007
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28008
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28009
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28011
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28012
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28013
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28014
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28015
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28017
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28019
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28020
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28021
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28022
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28023
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28024
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28025
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28026
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00004.html
packages.debian.org/source/stretch/exim4
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/exim4
www.qualys.com/2021/05/04/21nails/21nails.txt