Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in SLURM

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# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: secpod_slurm_privilege_escalation_vuln.nasl 5122 2017-01-27 12:16:00Z teissa $
#
# Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in SLURM
#
# Authors:
# Sharath S <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2009 SecPod, http://www.secpod.com
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tag_impact = "This can be exploited by malicious SLURM local users to gain escalated
  privileges.
  Impact Level: Application/System";
tag_affected = "SLURM all versions of 1.2 and 1.3 prior to 1.3.15 on Linux (Debian)";
tag_insight = "- Error within the sbcast implementation when establishing supplemental
    groups, which can be exploited to e.g. access files with the supplemental
    group privileges of the slurmd daemon.
  - Error in slurmctld daemon is not properly dropping supplemental groups
    when handling the 'strigger' command, which can be exploited to
    e.g. access files with the supplemental group privileges of the
    slurmctld daemon.";
tag_solution = "Upgrade to SLURM version 1.3.14 or later
  https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/download.html";
tag_summary = "This host has SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management)
  installed and is prone to Privilege Escalation vulnerability.";

if(description)
{
  script_id(900375);
  script_version("$Revision: 5122 $");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-01-27 13:16:00 +0100 (Fri, 27 Jan 2017) $");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-06-23 10:30:45 +0200 (Tue, 23 Jun 2009)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.2");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2084");
  script_bugtraq_id(34638);
  script_name("Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in SLURM");
  script_xref(name : "URL" , value : "http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1776");
  script_xref(name : "URL" , value : "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1128");
  script_xref(name : "URL" , value : "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524980");
  script_xref(name : "URL" , value : "http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=676055&group_id=157944");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 SecPod");
  script_family("Privilege escalation");
  script_dependencies("secpod_slurm_detect.nasl");
  script_require_keys("SLURM/Ver");
  script_tag(name : "impact" , value : tag_impact);
  script_tag(name : "affected" , value : tag_affected);
  script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
  script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
  script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
  exit(0);
}


include("version_func.inc");

# Check for SLURM all versions of 1.2 and 1.3 prior to 1.3.15
slurmVer = get_kb_item("SLURM/Ver");
if(slurmVer)
{
  if(version_in_range(version:slurmVer, test_version:"1.2", test_version2:"1.3.13")){
    security_message(0);
  }
}