Debian DSA-5078-1 zsh security update. Code execution vulnerability in zsh
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 82 |
---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat Linux | (RHSA-2022:2120) Moderate: zsh security update | 10 May 202206:56 | – | redhat |
Tenable Nessus | Amazon Linux 2022 : (ALAS2022-2022-117) | 6 Sep 202200:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Photon OS 4.0: Zsh PHSA-2022-4.0-0169 | 23 Jul 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Rocky Linux 8 : zsh (RLSA-2022:2120) | 6 Nov 202300:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Debian DLA-2926-1 : zsh - LTS security update | 18 Feb 202200:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Amazon Linux 2 : zsh (ALAS-2022-1757) | 4 Mar 202200:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Photon OS 3.0: Zsh PHSA-2022-3.0-0376 | 24 Jul 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | GLSA-202407-01 : Zsh: Prompt Expansion Vulnerability | 1 Jul 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | CentOS 9 : zsh-5.8-9.el9 | 29 Feb 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | CentOS 8 : zsh (CESA-2022:2120) | 10 May 202200:00 | – | nessus |
#%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-5078. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(158109);
script_version("1.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/02/24");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-45444");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-5078-1 : zsh - security update");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5078
advisory.
- In zsh before 5.8.1, an attacker can achieve code execution if they control a command output inside the
prompt, as demonstrated by a %F argument. This occurs because of recursive PROMPT_SUBST expansion.
(CVE-2021-45444)
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:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/zsh");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5078");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-45444");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/zsh");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/zsh");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the zsh packages.
For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 5.8-6+deb11u1.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/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:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-45444");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/02/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/02/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/02/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:zsh");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:zsh-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:zsh-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:zsh-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:zsh-static");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022 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/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var release = get_kb_item('Host/Debian/release');
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian');
var release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(10)\.[0-9]+|^(11)\.[0-9]+", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian 10.0 / 11.0', 'Debian ' + release);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Debian', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'zsh', 'reference': '5.7.1-1+deb10u1'},
{'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'zsh-common', 'reference': '5.7.1-1+deb10u1'},
{'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'zsh-dev', 'reference': '5.7.1-1+deb10u1'},
{'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'zsh-doc', 'reference': '5.7.1-1+deb10u1'},
{'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'zsh-static', 'reference': '5.7.1-1+deb10u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'zsh', 'reference': '5.8-6+deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'zsh-common', 'reference': '5.8-6+deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'zsh-dev', 'reference': '5.8-6+deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'zsh-doc', 'reference': '5.8-6+deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'zsh-static', 'reference': '5.8-6+deb11u1'}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
var release = NULL;
var prefix = NULL;
var reference = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['prefix'])) prefix = package_array['prefix'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (release && prefix && reference) {
if (deb_check(release:release, prefix:prefix, reference:reference)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : deb_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = deb_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'zsh / zsh-common / zsh-dev / zsh-doc / zsh-static');
}
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