Photon OS 5.0: Grub2 PHSA-2024-5.0-0241
| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 99 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 2023 : grub2-common, grub2-efi-aa64, grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot (ALAS2023-2024-546) | 6 Mar 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| Amazon Linux 2 : grub2 (ALAS-2024-2499) | 18 Mar 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0211: grub2 (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0211) | 14 May 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1569) | 9 May 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1591) | 9 May 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1715) | 29 May 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1726) | 29 May 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1787) | 3 Jun 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1799) | 3 Jun 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1857) | 28 Jun 202400:00 | – | nessus |
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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-5.0-0241. The text
# itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(261150);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/09/03");
script_cve_id("CVE-2024-1048");
script_name(english:"Photon OS 5.0: Grub2 PHSA-2024-5.0-0241");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"An update of the grub2 package has been released.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-5.0-241.md");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected Linux packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/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:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2024-1048");
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:"2024/02/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/04/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/09/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:grub2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:5.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list");
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/PhotonOS/release');
if (isnull(_release) || _release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'PhotonOS');
if (_release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 5\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'PhotonOS 5.0');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'PhotonOS', cpu);
var flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-5.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'grub2-2.06-16.ph5')) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-5.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'grub2-efi-2.06-16.ph5')) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-5.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'grub2-efi-image-2.06-16.ph5')) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-5.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'grub2-emu-2.06-16.ph5')) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-5.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'grub2-lang-2.06-16.ph5')) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-5.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'grub2-pc-2.06-16.ph5')) 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, 'grub2');
}
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03 Sep 2025 00:00Current
5.9Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.9
CVSS 3.13.3
EPSS0.00269
SSVC