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RHEL 5 : firefox (Unpatched Vulnerability)

2024-05-1100:00:00
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5
rhel 5
firefox
unpatched vulnerability
remote host
code execution
integer overflow
xml parsing
https
mixed content
memory safety
memory corruption
exploitable crash
nessus
package manager

8.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.01 Low

EPSS

Percentile

83.2%

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  • firefox: Use-after-free in compositor potentially allows code execution (CVE-2018-5148)

  • An integer overflow during the parsing of XML using the Expat library. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50. (CVE-2016-9063)

  • If a site is loaded over a HTTPS connection but loads a favicon resource over HTTP, the mixed content warning is not displayed to users. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 63. (CVE-2018-12403)

  • Firefox did not reset the address bar after the beforeunload dialog was shown if the user chose to remain on the page. This could have resulted in an incorrect URL being shown when used in conjunction with other unexpected browser behaviors. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80. (CVE-2020-15665)

  • Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 80. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 81. (CVE-2020-15674)

  • When processing surfaces, the lifetime may outlive a persistent buffer leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 81. (CVE-2020-15675)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager’s report that the package is installed.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory firefox. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(195600);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/05/11");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2016-9063",
    "CVE-2018-5148",
    "CVE-2018-12403",
    "CVE-2020-15665",
    "CVE-2020-15674",
    "CVE-2020-15675"
  );

  script_name(english:"RHEL 5 : firefox (Unpatched Vulnerability)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Red Hat 5 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities that will not be patched.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple
vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - firefox: Use-after-free in compositor potentially allows code execution (CVE-2018-5148)

  - An integer overflow during the parsing of XML using the Expat library. This vulnerability affects Firefox
    < 50. (CVE-2016-9063)

  - If a site is loaded over a HTTPS connection but loads a favicon resource over HTTP, the mixed content
    warning is not displayed to users. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 63. (CVE-2018-12403)

  - Firefox did not reset the address bar after the beforeunload dialog was shown if the user chose to remain
    on the page. This could have resulted in an incorrect URL being shown when used in conjunction with other
    unexpected browser behaviors. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80. (CVE-2020-15665)

  - Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 80. Some of these bugs showed evidence
    of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run
    arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 81. (CVE-2020-15674)

  - When processing surfaces, the lifetime may outlive a persistent buffer leading to memory corruption and a
    potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 81. (CVE-2020-15675)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package
is installed.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"The vendor has acknowledged the vulnerabilities but no solution has been provided. Refer to the vendor for remediation
guidance.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  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:H/I:H/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-2018-5148");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_unpatched", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/11/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/05/11");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-expat1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:expat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-virt-viewer");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird");
  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("global_settings/vendor_unpatched"))
exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");

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: '5')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat 5.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 = [
  {
    'pkgs': [
      {'reference':'expat', 'release':'5', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'unpatched_pkg':'expat', 'cves':['CVE-2016-9063']},
      {'reference':'firefox', 'release':'5', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE, 'unpatched_pkg':'firefox', 'cves':['CVE-2018-5148', 'CVE-2018-12403', 'CVE-2020-15665', 'CVE-2020-15674', 'CVE-2020-15675']},
      {'reference':'thunderbird', 'release':'5', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE, 'unpatched_pkg':'thunderbird', 'cves':['CVE-2020-15675']}
    ]
  }
];


var flag = 0;
foreach var constraint_array ( constraints ) {
  var repo_relative_urls = NULL;
  var enterprise_linux_flag = rhel_repo_urls_has_content_dist_rhel(repo_urls:repo_relative_urls);
  foreach var pkg ( constraint_array['pkgs'] ) {
    var unpatched_pkg = NULL;
    var _release = NULL;
    var sp = NULL;
    var el_string = NULL;
    var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
    var exists_check = NULL;
    var cves = NULL;
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['unpatched_pkg'])) unpatched_pkg = pkg['unpatched_pkg'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['release'])) _release = 'RHEL' + pkg['release'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
    if (unpatched_pkg &&
        _release &&
        (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check)) &&
        unpatched_package_exists(release:_release, package:unpatched_pkg, cves: cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var extra = NULL;
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : unpatched_packages_report()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'expat / firefox / thunderbird');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
redhatenterprise_linux5cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5
redhatenterprise_linux6cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
redhatenterprise_linux7cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
redhatenterprise_linux8cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
redhatenterprise_linuxcompat-expat1p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-expat1
redhatenterprise_linuxexpatp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:expat
redhatenterprise_linuxfirefoxp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox
redhatenterprise_linuxmingw-virt-viewerp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-virt-viewer
redhatenterprise_linuxthunderbirdp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird