CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
Multiple race conditions were discovered in augeas when saving configuration files which expose it to symlink attacks. Write access to the directory where the configuration file is located is required by the attacker.
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-28-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(82176);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-0786", "CVE-2012-0787", "CVE-2013-6412");
script_bugtraq_id(63861, 65165);
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-28-1 : augeas security update");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Multiple race conditions were discovered in augeas when saving
configuration files which expose it to symlink attacks. Write access
to the directory where the configuration file is located is required
by the attacker.
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/2014/08/msg00001.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/augeas"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:augeas-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:augeas-lenses");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:augeas-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libaugeas-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libaugeas0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/08/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/03/26");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
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:"6.0", prefix:"augeas-dbg", reference:"0.7.2-1+deb6u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"augeas-lenses", reference:"0.7.2-1+deb6u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"augeas-tools", reference:"0.7.2-1+deb6u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libaugeas-dev", reference:"0.7.2-1+deb6u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libaugeas0", reference:"0.7.2-1+deb6u1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");