7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.5 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
45.0%
The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-5312 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
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-5312.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(181787);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/02");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-20900");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2023-A-0450-S");
script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 8 : open-vm-tools (ELSA-2023-5312)");
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-2023-5312 advisory.
- A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-
vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine
may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged
Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-
public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-
db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html . (CVE-2023-20900)
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-2023-5312.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:A/AC:H/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:A/AC:H/PR:N/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-2023-20900");
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:"2023/08/31");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/09/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/09/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:open-vm-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:open-vm-tools-desktop");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:open-vm-tools-salt-minion");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:open-vm-tools-sdmp");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
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) 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 os_release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 8', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, 'x86_64', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'open-vm-tools-12.1.5-2.0.2.el8_8.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'open-vm-tools-desktop-12.1.5-2.0.2.el8_8.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.1.5-2.0.2.el8_8.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.1.5-2.0.2.el8_8.3', '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, 'open-vm-tools / open-vm-tools-desktop / open-vm-tools-salt-minion / etc');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
oracle | linux | 8 | cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream |
oracle | linux | 8 | cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8 |
oracle | linux | open-vm-tools | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:open-vm-tools |
oracle | linux | open-vm-tools-desktop | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:open-vm-tools-desktop |
oracle | linux | open-vm-tools-salt-minion | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:open-vm-tools-salt-minion |
oracle | linux | open-vm-tools-sdmp | p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:open-vm-tools-sdmp |
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.5 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
45.0%