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Oracle Linux 8 : openssh (ELSA-2022-2013)

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The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2022-2013 advisory.

  • sshd in OpenSSH 6.2 through 8.x before 8.8, when certain non-default configurations are used, allows privilege escalation because supplemental groups are not initialized as expected. Helper programs for AuthorizedKeysCommand and AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand may run with privileges associated with group memberships of the sshd process, if the configuration specifies running the command as a different user.
    (CVE-2021-41617)

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

##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-2013.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(161320);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/02/09");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-41617");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2021-A-0474-S");

  script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 8 : openssh (ELSA-2022-2013)");

  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-2022-2013 advisory.

  - sshd in OpenSSH 6.2 through 8.x before 8.8, when certain non-default configurations are used, allows
    privilege escalation because supplemental groups are not initialized as expected. Helper programs for
    AuthorizedKeysCommand and AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand may run with privileges associated with group
    memberships of the sshd process, if the configuration specifies running the command as a different user.
    (CVE-2021-41617)

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-2022-2013.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/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:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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-2021-41617");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/09/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/05/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/05/18");

  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:openssh");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-askpass");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-cavs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-clients");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-keycat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-ldap");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-server");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pam_ssh_agent_auth");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022-2023 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('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');
var 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');
var 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');
var 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);

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, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'openssh-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-askpass-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-askpass-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-cavs-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-cavs-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-clients-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-clients-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-keycat-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-keycat-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-ldap-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-ldap-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-server-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'openssh-server-8.0p1-13.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.3-7.13.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.3-7.13.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', '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 = '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['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (reference && release) {
    if (exists_check) {
        if (rpm_exists(release:release, rpm:exists_check) && 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_WARNING,
      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, 'openssh / openssh-askpass / openssh-cavs / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
oraclelinux8cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8
oraclelinuxopensshp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh
oraclelinuxopenssh-askpassp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-askpass
oraclelinuxopenssh-cavsp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-cavs
oraclelinuxopenssh-clientsp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-clients
oraclelinuxopenssh-keycatp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-keycat
oraclelinuxopenssh-ldapp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-ldap
oraclelinuxopenssh-serverp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-server
oraclelinuxpam_ssh_agent_authp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pam_ssh_agent_auth