David Woodhouse reports :
Secondly a privilege escalation where the trusted ‘exim’ user is able to tell Exim to use arbitrary config files, in which further ${run …} commands will be invoked as root.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(51446);
script_version("1.11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/03/28");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-4345");
script_xref(name:"CISA-KNOWN-EXPLOITED", value:"2022/04/15");
script_name(english:"FreeBSD : exim -- local privilege escalation (e4fcf020-0447-11e0-becc-0022156e8794)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"David Woodhouse reports :
Secondly a privilege escalation where the trusted 'exim' user is able
to tell Exim to use arbitrary config files, in which further ${run
...} commands will be invoked as root.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20101209.022730.dbb6732d.en.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661756#c3");
# https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/e4fcf020-0447-11e0-becc-0022156e8794.html
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?32236427");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Exim4 string_format Function Heap Buffer Overflow');
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2010/12/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/01/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/01/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:exim");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2022 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");
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);
flag = 0;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"exim<4.73")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");