CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
74.9%
A vulnerability has been discovered in swauth, an authentication system for Swift, a distributed virtual object store used in Openstack.
The authentication token for an user is saved in clear text to the log file, which could enable an attacker with access to the logs to bypass the authentication provided by swauth.
#%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-4044. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(104723);
script_version("3.8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-16613");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4044");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4044-1 : swauth - 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:
"A vulnerability has been discovered in swauth, an authentication
system for Swift, a distributed virtual object store used in
Openstack.
The authentication token for an user is saved in clear text to the log
file, which could enable an attacker with access to the logs to bypass
the authentication provided by swauth."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882314"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/swauth"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/swauth"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4044"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the swauth packages.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.0-2+deb9u1."
);
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:U/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: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:swauth");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/11/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/11/22");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2021 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:"9.0", prefix:"swauth", reference:"1.2.0-2+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"swauth-doc", reference:"1.2.0-2+deb9u1")) 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");
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
74.9%