The OpenPAM library searches for policy definitions in several locations. While doing so, the absence of a policy file is a soft failure (handled by searching in the next location) while the presence of an invalid file is a hard failure (handled by returning an error to the caller).
The policy parser returns the same error code (ENOENT) when a syntactically valid policy references a non-existent module as when the requested policy file does not exist. The search loop regards this as a soft failure and looks for the next similarly-named policy, without discarding the partially-loaded configuration.
A similar issue can arise if a policy contains an include directive that refers to a non-existent policy. Impact : If a module is removed, or the name of a module is misspelled in the policy file, the PAM library will proceed with a partially loaded configuration. Depending on the exact circumstances, this may result in a fail-open scenario where users are allowed to log in without a password, or with an incorrect password.
In particular, if a policy references a module installed by a package or port, and that package or port is being reinstalled or upgraded, there is a brief window of time during which the module is absent and policies that use it may fail open. This can be especially damaging to Internet-facing SSH servers, which are regularly subjected to brute-force scans.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2020 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
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#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(92903);
script_version("2.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-3879");
script_bugtraq_id(67808);
script_xref(name:"FreeBSD", value:"SA-14:13.pam");
script_name(english:"FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Incorrect error handling in PAM policy parser (6e8f9003-6007-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8)");
script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The OpenPAM library searches for policy definitions in several
locations. While doing so, the absence of a policy file is a soft
failure (handled by searching in the next location) while the presence
of an invalid file is a hard failure (handled by returning an error to
the caller).
The policy parser returns the same error code (ENOENT) when a
syntactically valid policy references a non-existent module as when
the requested policy file does not exist. The search loop regards this
as a soft failure and looks for the next similarly-named policy,
without discarding the partially-loaded configuration.
A similar issue can arise if a policy contains an include directive
that refers to a non-existent policy. Impact : If a module is removed,
or the name of a module is misspelled in the policy file, the PAM
library will proceed with a partially loaded configuration. Depending
on the exact circumstances, this may result in a fail-open scenario
where users are allowed to log in without a password, or with an
incorrect password.
In particular, if a policy references a module installed by a package
or port, and that package or port is being reinstalled or upgraded,
there is a brief window of time during which the module is absent and
policies that use it may fail open. This can be especially damaging to
Internet-facing SSH servers, which are regularly subjected to
brute-force scans."
);
# https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/6e8f9003-6007-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?dbac76f7"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
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_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:freebsd:freebsd:FreeBSD");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/06/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/08/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/08/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
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:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info", "Settings/ParanoidReport");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);
flag = 0;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=9.2<9.2_7")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=10.0<10.0_4")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");