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HistoryOct 24, 2023 - 12:00 a.m.

Fedora 38 : mod_http2 (2023-0259c3f26f)

2023-10-2400:00:00
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fedora 38 mod_http2
vulnerabilities
denial of service
request cancellation
memory resources

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.732 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.1%

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-0259c3f26f advisory.

  • The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. (CVE-2023-44487)

  • When a HTTP/2 stream was reset (RST frame) by a client, there was a time window were the request’s memory resources were not reclaimed immediately. Instead, de-allocation was deferred to connection close. A client could send new requests and resets, keeping the connection busy and open and causing the memory footprint to keep on growing. On connection close, all resources were reclaimed, but the process might run out of memory before that. This was found by the reporter during testing of CVE-2023-44487 (HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Exploit) with their own test client. During normal HTTP/2 use, the probability to hit this bug is very low. The kept memory would not become noticeable before the connection closes or times out. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.58, which fixes the issue. (CVE-2023-45802)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2023-0259c3f26f
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(183760);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/09");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-44487", "CVE-2023-45802");
  script_xref(name:"CISA-KNOWN-EXPLOITED", value:"2023/10/31");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2023-0259c3f26f");
  script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2024-0004");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 38 : mod_http2 (2023-0259c3f26f)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
FEDORA-2023-0259c3f26f advisory.

  - The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation
    can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. (CVE-2023-44487)

  - When a HTTP/2 stream was reset (RST frame) by a client, there was a time window were the request's memory
    resources were not reclaimed immediately. Instead, de-allocation was deferred to connection close. A
    client could send new requests and resets, keeping the connection busy and open and causing the memory
    footprint to keep on growing. On connection close, all resources were reclaimed, but the process might run
    out of memory before that. This was found by the reporter during testing of CVE-2023-44487 (HTTP/2 Rapid
    Reset Exploit) with their own test client. During normal HTTP/2 use, the probability to hit this bug is
    very low. The kept memory would not become noticeable before the connection closes or times out. Users are
    recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.58, which fixes the issue. (CVE-2023-45802)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-0259c3f26f");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected mod_http2 package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-44487");

  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:"2023/10/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/10/21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/10/24");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mod_http2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Fedora' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Fedora');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^38([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora 38', 'Fedora ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Fedora', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'mod_http2-2.0.25-1.fc38', 'release':'FC38', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (reference && _release) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'mod_http2');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
fedoraprojectfedora38cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38
fedoraprojectfedoramod_http2p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mod_http2

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.732 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.1%