9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.011 Low
EPSS
Percentile
84.8%
Netatalk is prone to a remote code execution (RCE)
vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:netatalk:netatalk";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.124500");
script_version("2024-03-15T05:06:15+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-03-15 05:06:15 +0000 (Fri, 15 Mar 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-09-22 07:58:13 +0000 (Fri, 22 Sep 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-09-22 18:33:00 +0000 (Fri, 22 Sep 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-42464");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Netatalk 3.1.x < 3.1.17 RCE Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Buffer overflow");
script_dependencies("gb_netatalk_asip_afp_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("netatalk/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Netatalk is prone to a remote code execution (RCE)
vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"When parsing Spotlight RPC packets, one encoded data structure
is a key-value style dictionary where the keys are character strings, and the values can be any
of the supported types in the underlying protocol. Due to a lack of type checking in callers of
the dalloc_value_for_key() function, which returns the object associated with a key, a malicious
actor may be able to fully control the value of the pointer and theoretically achieve remote code
execution on the host.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary
code on affected installations of Netatalk. Authentication is not required to exploit this
vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Netatalk version 3.1.x prior to 3.1.17.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.1.17 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://netatalk.io/3.1/ReleaseNotes3.1.17");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/486");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe: CPE ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if( version_in_range_exclusive( version: version, test_version_lo: "3.1.0", test_version_up: "3.1.17" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "3.1.17", install_path: location );
security_message( port: port, data: report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.011 Low
EPSS
Percentile
84.8%