6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.006 Low
EPSS
Percentile
77.7%
Felix Wilhelm discovered a path traversal vulnerability in Apport when handling the ExecutablePath field in crash files. An attacker could trick a user into opening a specially crafted crash file and execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3354-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(101809);
script_version("3.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-10708");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3354-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Apport vulnerability (USN-3354-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Felix Wilhelm discovered a path traversal vulnerability in Apport when
handling the ExecutablePath field in crash files. An attacker could
trick a user into opening a specially crafted crash file and execute
arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3354-1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:N/UI:R/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-2017-10708");
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:"2017/07/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/07/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/07/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport-gtk");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport-kde");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport-noui");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport-retrace");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport-valgrind");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dh-apport");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-apport");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-problem-report");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-apport");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-problem-report");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2017-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include('debian_package.inc');
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('14.04' >< os_release || '16.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) 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, 'Ubuntu', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'apport', 'pkgver': '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'apport-gtk', 'pkgver': '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'apport-kde', 'pkgver': '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'apport-noui', 'pkgver': '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'apport-retrace', 'pkgver': '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'apport-valgrind', 'pkgver': '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'dh-apport', 'pkgver': '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'python-apport', 'pkgver': '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'python-problem-report', 'pkgver': '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-apport', 'pkgver': '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-problem-report', 'pkgver': '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'apport', 'pkgver': '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'apport-gtk', 'pkgver': '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'apport-kde', 'pkgver': '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'apport-noui', 'pkgver': '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'apport-retrace', 'pkgver': '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'apport-valgrind', 'pkgver': '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'dh-apport', 'pkgver': '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'python-apport', 'pkgver': '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'python-problem-report', 'pkgver': '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-apport', 'pkgver': '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-problem-report', 'pkgver': '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10'}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
var osver = NULL;
var pkgname = NULL;
var pkgver = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'apport / apport-gtk / apport-kde / apport-noui / apport-retrace / etc');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | apport | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | apport-gtk | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport-gtk |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | apport-kde | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport-kde |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | apport-noui | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport-noui |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | apport-retrace | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport-retrace |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | apport-valgrind | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport-valgrind |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | dh-apport | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dh-apport |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | python-apport | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-apport |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | python-problem-report | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-problem-report |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | python3-apport | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-apport |
6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.006 Low
EPSS
Percentile
77.7%