CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
91.0%
It was found that mailman did not sanitize the list name before passing it to certain MTAs. A local attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the user running mailman. (CVE-2015-2775)
It was found that mailman stored private email messages in a world-readable directory. A local user could use this flaw to read private mailing list archives. (CVE-2002-0389)
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2015-582.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(85455);
script_version("2.2");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:35");
script_cve_id("CVE-2002-0389", "CVE-2015-2775");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2015-582");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2015:1417");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : mailman (ALAS-2015-582)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"It was found that mailman did not sanitize the list name before
passing it to certain MTAs. A local attacker could use this flaw to
execute arbitrary code as the user running mailman. (CVE-2015-2775)
It was found that mailman stored private email messages in a
world-readable directory. A local user could use this flaw to read
private mailing list archives. (CVE-2002-0389)"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-582.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Run 'yum update mailman' to update your system."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mailman");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mailman-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/08/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/08/18");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"mailman-2.1.15-21.20.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-21.20.amzn1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "mailman / mailman-debuginfo");
}