6.4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
9.1 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
0.137 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.7%
Peter Winter-Smith discovered that libssh incorrectly handled authentication when being used as a server. A remote attacker could use this issue to bypass authentication without any credentials.
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-3795-1. 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(118200);
script_version("1.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-10933");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3795-1");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2018-A-0347-S");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libssh vulnerability (USN-3795-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Peter Winter-Smith discovered that libssh incorrectly handled
authentication when being used as a server. A remote attacker could
use this issue to bypass authentication without any credentials.
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-3795-1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
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:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-10933");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"in_the_news", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/10/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/10/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/10/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssh-4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssh-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssh-gcrypt-4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssh-gcrypt-dev");
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:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2023 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 || '18.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04 / 18.04', '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': 'libssh-4', 'pkgver': '0.6.1-0ubuntu3.4'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libssh-dev', 'pkgver': '0.6.1-0ubuntu3.4'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libssh-4', 'pkgver': '0.6.3-4.3ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libssh-dev', 'pkgver': '0.6.3-4.3ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libssh-gcrypt-4', 'pkgver': '0.6.3-4.3ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libssh-gcrypt-dev', 'pkgver': '0.6.3-4.3ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libssh-4', 'pkgver': '0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38-1ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libssh-dev', 'pkgver': '0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38-1ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libssh-gcrypt-4', 'pkgver': '0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38-1ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libssh-gcrypt-dev', 'pkgver': '0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38-1ubuntu0.1'}
];
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, 'libssh-4 / libssh-dev / libssh-gcrypt-4 / libssh-gcrypt-dev');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libssh-4 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssh-4 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libssh-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssh-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libssh-gcrypt-4 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssh-gcrypt-4 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libssh-gcrypt-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssh-gcrypt-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts |
6.4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
9.1 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
0.137 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.7%