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RHEL 8 : xmlrpc-c (RHSA-2024:4259)

2024-07-0200:00:00
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rhel 8
xmlrpc-c
vulnerability
rhsa-2024:4259
xml-rpc
rpc protocol
http
network protocol
expat
denial of service
cve-2023-52425
tenable
nessus
security advisory.

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

7.7

Confidence

High

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4259 advisory.

XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol that uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a     transport mechanism. The xmlrpc-c packages provide a network protocol to allow a client program to make a     simple RPC (remote procedure call) over the Internet. It converts an RPC into an XML document, sends it to     a remote server using HTTP, and gets back the response in XML.

Security Fix(es):

* expat: parsing large tokens can trigger a denial of service (CVE-2023-52425)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security 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 Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2024:4259. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(201297);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/07/02");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-52425");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2024:4259");

  script_name(english:"RHEL 8 : xmlrpc-c (RHSA-2024:4259)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for xmlrpc-c.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in
the RHSA-2024:4259 advisory.

    XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol that uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a
    transport mechanism. The xmlrpc-c packages provide a network protocol to allow a client program to make a
    simple RPC (remote procedure call) over the Internet. It converts an RPC into an XML document, sends it to
    a remote server using HTTP, and gets back the response in XML.

    Security Fix(es):

    * expat: parsing large tokens can trigger a denial of service (CVE-2023-52425)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262877");
  # https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_4259.json
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?62c3b388");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4259");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the RHEL xmlrpc-c package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:4259.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-52425");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_cwe_id(400);
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_severity", value:"Moderate");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2024/02/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/07/02");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/07/02");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-c++");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-client");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-client++");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "redhat_repos.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');
include('rhel.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Red Hat' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Red Hat');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (!rhel_check_release(operator: 'ge', os_version: os_ver, rhel_version: '8')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat 8.x', 'Red Hat ' + 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$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Red Hat', cpu);

var constraints = [
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      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/aarch64/baseos/os',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/aarch64/baseos/source/SRPMS',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/aarch64/codeready-builder/debug',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/aarch64/codeready-builder/os',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/aarch64/codeready-builder/source/SRPMS',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/ppc64le/baseos/debug',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/ppc64le/baseos/os',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/ppc64le/baseos/source/SRPMS',
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      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/ppc64le/codeready-builder/os',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/ppc64le/codeready-builder/source/SRPMS',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/s390x/baseos/debug',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/s390x/baseos/os',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/s390x/baseos/source/SRPMS',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/s390x/codeready-builder/debug',
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      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/s390x/codeready-builder/source/SRPMS',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/x86_64/baseos/debug',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/x86_64/baseos/os',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/x86_64/baseos/source/SRPMS',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/x86_64/codeready-builder/debug',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/x86_64/codeready-builder/os',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.10/x86_64/codeready-builder/source/SRPMS',
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      'content/dist/rhel8/8.6/aarch64/baseos/os',
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      'content/dist/rhel8/8.6/aarch64/codeready-builder/debug',
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      'content/dist/rhel8/8.8/x86_64/baseos/debug',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8.8/x86_64/baseos/os',
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      'content/dist/rhel8/8/s390x/codeready-builder/debug',
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      'content/dist/rhel8/8/x86_64/baseos/debug',
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      'content/dist/rhel8/8/x86_64/baseos/source/SRPMS',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8/x86_64/codeready-builder/debug',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8/x86_64/codeready-builder/os',
      'content/dist/rhel8/8/x86_64/codeready-builder/source/SRPMS'
    ],
    'pkgs': [
      {'reference':'xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-9.el8_10', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'xmlrpc-c-c++-1.51.0-9.el8_10', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'xmlrpc-c-client++-1.51.0-9.el8_10', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'xmlrpc-c-client-1.51.0-9.el8_10', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'xmlrpc-c-devel-1.51.0-9.el8_10', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
    ]
  }
];

var applicable_repo_urls = rhel_determine_applicable_repository_urls(constraints:constraints);
if(applicable_repo_urls == RHEL_REPOS_NO_OVERLAP_MESSAGE) exit(0, RHEL_REPO_NOT_ENABLED);

var flag = 0;
foreach var constraint_array ( constraints ) {
  var repo_relative_urls = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint_array['repo_relative_urls'])) repo_relative_urls = constraint_array['repo_relative_urls'];
  foreach var pkg ( constraint_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;
    var cves = NULL;
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['reference'])) reference = pkg['reference'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['release'])) _release = 'RHEL' + pkg['release'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cpu'])) _cpu = pkg['cpu'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['el_string'])) el_string = pkg['el_string'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['epoch'])) epoch = pkg['epoch'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = pkg['allowmaj'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
    if (reference &&
        _release &&
        rhel_decide_repo_relative_url_check(required_repo_url_list:repo_relative_urls) &&
        (applicable_repo_urls || (!exists_check || 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, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var extra = NULL;
  if (isnull(applicable_repo_urls) || !applicable_repo_urls) extra = rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_repo_caveat();
  else extra = rpm_report_get();
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : extra
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'xmlrpc-c / xmlrpc-c-c++ / xmlrpc-c-client / xmlrpc-c-client++ / etc');
}

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

7.7

Confidence

High