The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-0304 advisory.
flatpak-portal
service that can allow sandboxed applications to execute arbitrary code on the host system (a sandbox escape). This sandbox-escape bug is present in versions from 0.11.4 and before fixed versions 1.8.5 and 1.10.0. The Flatpak portal D-Bus service (flatpak-portal
, also known by its D-Bus service name org.freedesktop.portal.Flatpak
) allows apps in a Flatpak sandbox to launch their own subprocesses in a new sandbox instance, either with the same security settings as the caller or with more restrictive security settings. For example, this is used in Flatpak-packaged web browsers such as Chromium to launch subprocesses that will process untrusted web content, and give those subprocesses a more restrictive sandbox than the browser itself. In vulnerable versions, the Flatpak portal service passes caller-specified environment variables to non-sandboxed processes on the host system, and in particular to the flatpak run
command that is used to launch the new sandbox instance. A malicious or compromised Flatpak app could set environment variables that are trusted by the flatpak run
command, and use them to execute arbitrary code that is not in a sandbox. As a workaround, this vulnerability can be mitigated by preventing the flatpak-portal
service from starting, but that mitigation will prevent many Flatpak apps from working correctly. This is fixed in versions 1.8.5 and 1.10.0. (CVE-2021-21261)Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2021-0304.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(146046);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/02/03");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-21261");
script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 8 : flatpak (ELSA-2021-0304)");
script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
ELSA-2021-0304 advisory.
- Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. A bug
was discovered in the `flatpak-portal` service that can allow sandboxed applications to execute arbitrary
code on the host system (a sandbox escape). This sandbox-escape bug is present in versions from 0.11.4 and
before fixed versions 1.8.5 and 1.10.0. The Flatpak portal D-Bus service (`flatpak-portal`, also known by
its D-Bus service name `org.freedesktop.portal.Flatpak`) allows apps in a Flatpak sandbox to launch their
own subprocesses in a new sandbox instance, either with the same security settings as the caller or with
more restrictive security settings. For example, this is used in Flatpak-packaged web browsers such as
Chromium to launch subprocesses that will process untrusted web content, and give those subprocesses a
more restrictive sandbox than the browser itself. In vulnerable versions, the Flatpak portal service
passes caller-specified environment variables to non-sandboxed processes on the host system, and in
particular to the `flatpak run` command that is used to launch the new sandbox instance. A malicious or
compromised Flatpak app could set environment variables that are trusted by the `flatpak run` command, and
use them to execute arbitrary code that is not in a sandbox. As a workaround, this vulnerability can be
mitigated by preventing the `flatpak-portal` service from starting, but that mitigation will prevent many
Flatpak apps from working correctly. This is fixed in versions 1.8.5 and 1.10.0. (CVE-2021-21261)
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://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2021-0304.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
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:L/UI:N/S:C/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-2021-21261");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/02/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/02/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:flatpak");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:flatpak-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:flatpak-selinux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:flatpak-session-helper");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/local_checks_enabled");
exit(0);
}
include('audit.inc');
include('global_settings.inc');
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/OracleLinux')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 8', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);
pkgs = [
{'reference':'flatpak-1.6.2-5.el8_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8'},
{'reference':'flatpak-1.6.2-5.el8_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8'},
{'reference':'flatpak-libs-1.6.2-5.el8_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8'},
{'reference':'flatpak-libs-1.6.2-5.el8_3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8'},
{'reference':'flatpak-libs-1.6.2-5.el8_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8'},
{'reference':'flatpak-selinux-1.6.2-5.el8_3', 'release':'8'},
{'reference':'flatpak-session-helper-1.6.2-5.el8_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8'},
{'reference':'flatpak-session-helper-1.6.2-5.el8_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8'}
];
flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
reference = NULL;
release = NULL;
sp = NULL;
cpu = NULL;
el_string = NULL;
rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
epoch = NULL;
allowmaj = NULL;
rpm_prefix = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) release = 'EL' + 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['rpm_prefix'])) rpm_prefix = package_array['rpm_prefix'];
if (reference && release) {
if (rpm_prefix) {
if (rpm_exists(release:release, rpm:rpm_prefix) && 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++;
} else {
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
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'flatpak / flatpak-libs / flatpak-selinux / etc');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
oracle | linux | 8 | cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8 |
oracle | linux | flatpak | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:flatpak |
oracle | linux | flatpak-libs | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:flatpak-libs |
oracle | linux | flatpak-selinux | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:flatpak-selinux |
oracle | linux | flatpak-session-helper | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:flatpak-session-helper |