CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
73.8%
It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-651 advisory.
A signal handler race condition vulnerability was found in OpenSSH's server (sshd), where a client does not authenticate within LoginGraceTime seconds (120 by default, 600 in old OpenSSH versions), then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls various functions that are not async-signal-safe, for example, syslog(). This issue leaves it vulnerable to a signal handler race condition on the cleanup_exit() function, which introduces the same vulnerability as CVE-2024-6387 in the unprivileged child of the SSHD server. (CVE-2024-6409)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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 2023 Security Advisory ALAS2023-2024-651.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(202916);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/07/22");
script_cve_id("CVE-2024-6409");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2024-A-0375");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2023 : openssh, openssh-clients, openssh-keycat (ALAS2023-2024-651)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-651 advisory.
A signal handler race condition vulnerability was found in OpenSSH's server (sshd), where a client does
not authenticate within LoginGraceTime seconds (120 by default, 600 in old OpenSSH versions), then sshd's
SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls various functions that are
not async-signal-safe, for example, syslog(). This issue leaves it vulnerable to a signal handler race
condition on the cleanup_exit() function, which introduces the same vulnerability as CVE-2024-6387 in the
unprivileged child of the SSHD server. (CVE-2024-6409)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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/AL2023/ALAS-2024-651.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-6409.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'dnf update openssh --releasever 2023.5.20240722' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2024-6409");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2024/07/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/07/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/07/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-clients");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-clients-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-debugsource");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-keycat");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-keycat-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-server");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-server-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pam_ssh_agent_auth");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pam_ssh_agent_auth-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023");
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) 2024 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 != "-2023")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2023", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'openssh-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-clients-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-clients-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-clients-debuginfo-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-clients-debuginfo-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-debuginfo-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-debuginfo-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-debugsource-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-debugsource-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-keycat-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-keycat-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-keycat-debuginfo-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-keycat-debuginfo-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-server-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-server-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-server-debuginfo-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'openssh-server-debuginfo-8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
{'reference':'pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.4-4.8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.4-4.8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'pam_ssh_agent_auth-debuginfo-0.10.4-4.8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL-2023', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'pam_ssh_agent_auth-debuginfo-0.10.4-4.8.amzn2023.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL-2023', '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_WARNING,
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, "openssh / openssh-clients / openssh-clients-debuginfo / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
amazon | linux | openssh-clients | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-clients |
amazon | linux | openssh-clients-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-clients-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | openssh-keycat | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-keycat |
amazon | linux | pam_ssh_agent_auth | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pam_ssh_agent_auth |
amazon | linux | openssh-debugsource | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-debugsource |
amazon | linux | openssh-keycat-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-keycat-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | openssh-server | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-server |
amazon | linux | openssh-server-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh-server-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | pam_ssh_agent_auth-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pam_ssh_agent_auth-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | openssh | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openssh |
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
73.8%