CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
46.9%
The version of polkit installed on the remote host is prior to 0.117-10. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-220 advisory.
A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit’s pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn’t handle the calling parameters count correctly and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting environment variables in such a way it’ll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfully executed the attack can cause a local privilege escalation given unprivileged users administrative rights on the target machine. (CVE-2021-4034)
There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned (CVE-2021-4115)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory ALAS2022-2022-220.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(168576);
script_version("1.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/01/12");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-4034", "CVE-2021-4115");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2022-A-0055");
script_xref(name:"CISA-KNOWN-EXPLOITED", value:"2022/07/18");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2022 : polkit (ALAS2022-2022-220)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2022 host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of polkit installed on the remote host is prior to 0.117-10. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-220 advisory.
- A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is
a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according
predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters count correctly
and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting
environment variables in such a way it'll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfully
executed the attack can cause a local privilege escalation given unprivileged users administrative rights
on the target machine. (CVE-2021-4034)
- There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process
file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit
process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned
(CVE-2021-4115)
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://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2022/ALAS-2022-220.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-4034.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-4115.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update polkit' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-4034");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Local Privilege Escalation in polkits pkexec');
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_canvas", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"canvas_package", value:"CANVAS");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/01/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/12/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/12/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-debugsource");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-docs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:polkit-libs-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2022");
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:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "-2022")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2022", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'polkit-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debugsource-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debugsource-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-debugsource-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-devel-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-devel-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-devel-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-docs-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.0.2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2022', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "polkit / polkit-debuginfo / polkit-debugsource / etc");
}
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
46.9%