The version of kernel installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2023-1998 advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
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# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(176615);
script_version("1.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/06/02");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-1998");
script_name(english:"CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: kernel (CVE-2023-1998)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote CBL Mariner host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of kernel installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore,
affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2023-1998 advisory.
- The Linux kernel allows userspace processes to enable mitigations by calling prctl with
PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL which disables the speculation feature as well as by using seccomp. We had noticed
that on VMs of at least one major cloud provider, the kernel still left the victim process exposed to
attacks in some cases even after enabling the spectre-BTI mitigation with prctl. The same behavior can be
observed on a bare-metal machine when forcing the mitigation to IBRS on boot command line. This happened
because when plain IBRS was enabled (not enhanced IBRS), the kernel had some logic that determined that
STIBP was not needed. The IBRS bit implicitly protects against cross-thread branch target injection.
However, with legacy IBRS, the IBRS bit was cleared on returning to userspace, due to performance reasons,
which disabled the implicit STIBP and left userspace threads vulnerable to cross-thread branch target
injection against which STIBP protects. (CVE-2023-1998)
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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1998");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-1998");
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:"2023/03/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/05/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/06/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:bpftool");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-docs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-drivers-accessibility");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-drivers-gpu");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-drivers-sound");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-dtb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-oprofile");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:python3-perf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:microsoft:cbl-mariner");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"MarinerOS Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CBLMariner/release", "Host/CBLMariner/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var release = get_kb_item('Host/CBLMariner/release');
if (isnull(release) || 'CBL-Mariner' >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CBL-Mariner');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CBL-Mariner ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'CBL-Mariner');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^2([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CBL-Mariner 2.0', 'CBL-Mariner ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/CBLMariner/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu)
audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'CBL-Mariner', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'bpftool-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'bpftool-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-devel-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-devel-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-docs-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-docs-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-drivers-accessibility-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-drivers-accessibility-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-drivers-gpu-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-drivers-gpu-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-drivers-sound-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-drivers-sound-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-dtb-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-perf-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-perf-5.15.111.1-1.cm2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'2.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var 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;
var exists_check = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'CBLMariner-' + 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 (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
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_NOTE,
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, 'bpftool / kernel / kernel-debuginfo / kernel-devel / kernel-docs / etc');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
microsoft | cbl-mariner | bpftool | p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:bpftool |
microsoft | cbl-mariner | kernel | p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel |
microsoft | cbl-mariner | kernel-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-debuginfo |
microsoft | cbl-mariner | kernel-devel | p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-devel |
microsoft | cbl-mariner | kernel-docs | p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-docs |
microsoft | cbl-mariner | kernel-drivers-accessibility | p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-drivers-accessibility |
microsoft | cbl-mariner | kernel-drivers-gpu | p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-drivers-gpu |
microsoft | cbl-mariner | kernel-drivers-sound | p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-drivers-sound |
microsoft | cbl-mariner | kernel-dtb | p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-dtb |
microsoft | cbl-mariner | kernel-oprofile | p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-oprofile |