Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-45405

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include('compat.inc');

if (description)
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  script_id(256375);
  script_version("1.1");
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  script_cve_id("CVE-2024-45405");

  script_name(english:"Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-45405");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be
patched.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied
patch available.

  - `gix-path` is a crate of the `gitoxide` project (an implementation of `git` written in Rust) dealing paths
    and their conversions. Prior to version 0.10.11, `gix-path` runs `git` to find the path of a configuration
    file associated with the `git` installation, but improperly resolves paths containing unusual or non-ASCII
    characters, in rare cases enabling a local attacker to inject configuration leading to code execution.
    Version 0.10.11 contains a patch for the issue. In `gix_path::env`, the underlying implementation of the
    `installation_config` and `installation_config_prefix` functions calls `git config -l --show-origin` to
    find the path of a file to treat as belonging to the `git` installation. Affected versions of `gix-path`
    do not pass `-z`/`--null` to cause `git` to report literal paths. Instead, to cover the occasional case
    that `git` outputs a quoted path, they attempt to parse the path by stripping the quotation marks. The
    problem is that, when a path is quoted, it may change in substantial ways beyond the concatenation of
    quotation marks. If not reversed, these changes can result in another valid path that is not equivalent to
    the original. On a single-user system, it is not possible to exploit this, unless `GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM` and
    `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL` have been set to unusual values or Git has been installed in an unusual way. Such a
    scenario is not expected. Exploitation is unlikely even on a multi-user system, though it is plausible in
    some uncommon configurations or use cases. In general, exploitation is more likely to succeed if users are
    expected to install `git` themselves, and are likely to do so in predictable locations; locations where
    `git` is installed, whether due to usernames in their paths or otherwise, contain characters that `git`
    quotes by default in paths, such as non-English letters and accented letters; a custom `system`-scope
    configuration file is specified with the `GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM` environment variable, and its path is in an
    unusual location or has strangely named components; or a `system`-scope configuration file is absent,
    empty, or suppressed by means other than `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`. Currently, `gix-path` can treat a
    `global`-scope configuration file as belonging to the installation if no higher scope configuration file
    is available. This increases the likelihood of exploitation even on a system where `git` is installed
    system-wide in an ordinary way. However, exploitation is expected to be very difficult even under any
    combination of those factors. (CVE-2024-45405)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.");
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  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
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  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2024-45405");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_unpatched", value:"true");

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  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info2.nasl", "set_linux_os_id.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/local_checks_enabled", "global_settings/vendor_unpatched", "Host/OS/identifier");
  script_require_ports("Host/OS/Ubuntu Linux-24.04");

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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);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "Ubuntu Linux-24.04": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "24.04",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "rust-gix-path"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
};

var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}