Shayan Sadigh discovered a vulnerability in OpenSSH: If PAM support is enabled and the sshd PAM configuration is configured to read userspecified environment variables and the ‘UseLogin’ option is enabled, a local user may escalate her privileges to root.
In Debian ‘UseLogin’ is not enabled by default.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-3550. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(90550);
script_version("2.8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8325");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3550");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3550-1 : openssh - security update");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Shayan Sadigh discovered a vulnerability in OpenSSH: If PAM support is
enabled and the sshd PAM configuration is configured to read
userspecified environment variables and the 'UseLogin' option is
enabled, a local user may escalate her privileges to root.
In Debian 'UseLogin' is not enabled by default."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/openssh"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/openssh"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3550"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the openssh packages.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 6.0p1-4+deb7u4.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 6.7p1-5+deb8u2."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/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:openssh");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/04/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/04/18");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
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:"7.0", prefix:"openssh-client", reference:"6.0p1-4+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"openssh-client-udeb", reference:"6.0p1-4+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"openssh-server", reference:"6.0p1-4+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"openssh-server-udeb", reference:"6.0p1-4+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"ssh", reference:"6.0p1-4+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"ssh-askpass-gnome", reference:"6.0p1-4+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"ssh-krb5", reference:"6.0p1-4+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"openssh-client", reference:"6.7p1-5+deb8u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"openssh-client-udeb", reference:"6.7p1-5+deb8u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"openssh-server", reference:"6.7p1-5+deb8u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"openssh-server-udeb", reference:"6.7p1-5+deb8u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"openssh-sftp-server", reference:"6.7p1-5+deb8u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"ssh", reference:"6.7p1-5+deb8u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"ssh-askpass-gnome", reference:"6.7p1-5+deb8u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"ssh-krb5", reference:"6.7p1-5+deb8u2")) 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 | openssh | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openssh |
debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0 |
debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0 |