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TencentOS Server 3: curl (TSSA-2023:0027)

🗓️ 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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TencentOS Server 3 is vulnerable due to outdated curl version, allowing resource exhaustion attacks.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Tencent Linux Security Advisory TSSA-2023:0027.
##

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(238911);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/11/20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-23916");

  script_name(english:"TencentOS Server 3: curl (TSSA-2023:0027)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote TencentOS Server 3 host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 3 host is prior to tested version. It is,
therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2023:0027 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

      CVE-2023-23916:
      An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 based on
    the chained HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed multiple times
    and potentially with differentalgorithms. The number of acceptable links in this decompression chain
    wascapped, but the cap was implemented on a per-header basis allowing a maliciousserver to insert a
    virtually unlimited number of compression steps simply byusing many headers. The use of such a
    decompression chain could result in a malloc bomb, making curl end up spending enormous amounts of
    allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent 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://mirrors.tencent.com/tlinux/errata/tssa-20230027.xml");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  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:R/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-2023-23916");

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

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/03/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/03/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/06/16");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:tencent:tencentos_server:3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:curl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Tencent 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_info2.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/etc/os-release", "Host/TencentOS/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm2.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_product = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/product');
if (isnull(os_product) || 'TencentOS' >!< os_product) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'TencentOS');
var os_version = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/version');
if (isnull(os_version)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'TencentOS');
if (! preg(pattern:"^3([^0-9]|$)", string:os_version)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'TencentOS 3.x', 'TencentOS ' + os_version);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/TencentOS/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) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'TencentOS', cpu);

var constraints = [
  {
    'release': '3',
    'pkgs': [
      {'reference':'curl-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'curl-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'curl-debugsource-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'curl-debugsource-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'curl-minimal-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'curl-minimal-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'curl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'curl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'libcurl-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'libcurl-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'libcurl-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'libcurl-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'libcurl-devel-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'libcurl-devel-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'libcurl-minimal-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'libcurl-minimal-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'libcurl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'libcurl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.tl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
    ]
  }
];

var os_release = get_one_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/release');
var os_sp = get_one_kb_item('Host/*/minor_release');

var flag = 0;
var reference;
var sp;
var _cpu;
var el_string;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp;
var epoch;
var allowmaj;
var exists_check;
var cves;
foreach var constraint ( constraints ) {
  # Check that the target release is equal to the affected release
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['release'])){
    if (constraint['release'] != os_release) continue;
  }
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['sp'])){
    if (constraint['sp'] != os_sp) continue;
  }
  foreach var pkg ( constraint['pkgs'] ) {
    reference = NULL;
    sp = NULL;
    _cpu = NULL;
    el_string = NULL;
    rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
    epoch = NULL;
    allowmaj = NULL;
    exists_check = NULL;
    cves = NULL;
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['reference'])) reference = pkg['reference'];
    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 &&
        ## (no known rpm to check OR known rpm_exists)
        (!exists_check || rpm_exists(rpm:exists_check)) &&
        rpm_check(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)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      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, 'curl / curl-debuginfo / curl-debugsource / etc');
}

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20 Nov 2025 00:00Current
6.7Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.7
CVSS 3.16.5
EPSS0.00066
SSVC
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