CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
70.7%
A flaw was found in the way NSS verified certain ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) signatures. Under certain conditions, an attacker could use this flaw to conduct signature forgery attacks.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2015-596.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(86074);
script_version("2.2");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:35");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-2730");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2015-596");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2015:1699");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : nss-softokn (ALAS-2015-596)");
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:
"A flaw was found in the way NSS verified certain ECDSA (Elliptic Curve
Digital Signature Algorithm) signatures. Under certain conditions, an
attacker could use this flaw to conduct signature forgery attacks."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-596.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Run 'yum update nss-softokn' to update your system."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-softokn");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-softokn-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-softokn-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-softokn-freebl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-softokn-freebl-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/09/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/09/23");
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:"nss-softokn-3.16.2.3-13.37.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"nss-softokn-debuginfo-3.16.2.3-13.37.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"nss-softokn-devel-3.16.2.3-13.37.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"nss-softokn-freebl-3.16.2.3-13.37.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.16.2.3-13.37.amzn1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "nss-softokn / nss-softokn-debuginfo / nss-softokn-devel / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
amazon | linux | nss-softokn | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-softokn |
amazon | linux | nss-softokn-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-softokn-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | nss-softokn-devel | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-softokn-devel |
amazon | linux | nss-softokn-freebl | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-softokn-freebl |
amazon | linux | nss-softokn-freebl-devel | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-softokn-freebl-devel |
amazon | linux | cpe:/o:amazon:linux |