The host is affected by Libgcrypt vulnerabilities (USN-5080-1) due to mishandling of ElGamal encryption, allowing plaintext recovery during interaction between cryptographic libraries
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 199 |
---|---|---|---|---|
OSV | libgcrypt20 vulnerabilities | 16 Sep 202116:07 | – | osv |
OSV | libgcrypt20 vulnerabilities | 16 Sep 202111:12 | – | osv |
OSV | CVE-2021-40528 | 6 Sep 202119:15 | – | osv |
OSV | Moderate: libgcrypt security update | 28 Jun 202210:51 | – | osv |
OSV | Red Hat Security Advisory: libgcrypt security and bug fix update | 16 Sep 202405:53 | – | osv |
OSV | Moderate: libgcrypt security update | 30 Jun 202200:00 | – | osv |
OSV | libgcrypt-devel-1.10.1-1.1 on GA media | 15 Jun 202400:00 | – | osv |
OSV | Red Hat Security Advisory: libgcrypt security update | 16 Sep 202408:01 | – | osv |
OSV | Moderate: libgcrypt security and bug fix update | 9 Nov 202109:18 | – | osv |
OSV | CVE-2021-33560 | 8 Jun 202111:15 | – | osv |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5080-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(153447);
script_version("1.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/09/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-33560", "CVE-2021-40528");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"5080-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Libgcrypt vulnerabilities (USN-5080-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as
referenced in the USN-5080-1 advisory.
It was discovered that Libgcrypt incorrectly handled ElGamal encryption. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to recover sensitive information.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5080-1");
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:N/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:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_threat_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/E:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-33560");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-40528");
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:"2021/06/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/09/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/09/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgcrypt-mingw-w64-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgcrypt11-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgcrypt20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgcrypt20-dev");
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) 2021-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2021-2024 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 (! ('18.04' >< os_release || '20.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.04', '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': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libgcrypt-mingw-w64-dev', 'pkgver': '1.8.1-4ubuntu1.3'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libgcrypt11-dev', 'pkgver': '1.5.4-3+really1.8.1-4ubuntu1.3'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libgcrypt20', 'pkgver': '1.8.1-4ubuntu1.3'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libgcrypt20-dev', 'pkgver': '1.8.1-4ubuntu1.3'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'libgcrypt-mingw-w64-dev', 'pkgver': '1.8.5-5ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'libgcrypt20', 'pkgver': '1.8.5-5ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'libgcrypt20-dev', 'pkgver': '1.8.5-5ubuntu1.1'}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var 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)
{
var extra = '';
extra += ubuntu_report_get();
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : extra
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libgcrypt-mingw-w64-dev / libgcrypt11-dev / libgcrypt20 / etc');
}
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