7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.024 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.0%
The version of containerd installed on the remote host is prior to 1.4.13-5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1849 advisory.
A maliciously crafted HTTP/2 stream could cause excessive CPU consumption in the HPACK decoder, sufficient to cause a denial of service from a small number of small requests. (CVE-2022-41723)
The HTTP/1 client does not fully validate the contents of the Host header. A maliciously crafted Host header can inject additional headers or entire requests. With fix, the HTTP/1 client now refuses to send requests containing an invalid Request.Host or Request.URL.Host value. (CVE-2023-29406)
Extremely large RSA keys in certificate chains can cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time verifying signatures. With fix, the size of RSA keys transmitted during handshakes is restricted to <= 8192 bits. Based on a survey of publicly trusted RSA keys, there are currently only three certificates in circulation with keys larger than this, and all three appear to be test certificates that are not actively deployed. It is possible there are larger keys in use in private PKIs, but we target the web PKI, so causing breakage here in the interests of increasing the default safety of users of crypto/tls seems reasonable. (CVE-2023-29409)
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 AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2023-1849.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(182710);
script_version("1.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-41723", "CVE-2023-29406", "CVE-2023-29409");
script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0012-S");
script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0052-S");
script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0064-S");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : containerd (ALAS-2023-1849)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of containerd installed on the remote host is prior to 1.4.13-5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1849 advisory.
- A maliciously crafted HTTP/2 stream could cause excessive CPU consumption in the HPACK decoder, sufficient
to cause a denial of service from a small number of small requests. (CVE-2022-41723)
- The HTTP/1 client does not fully validate the contents of the Host header. A maliciously crafted Host
header can inject additional headers or entire requests. With fix, the HTTP/1 client now refuses to send
requests containing an invalid Request.Host or Request.URL.Host value. (CVE-2023-29406)
- Extremely large RSA keys in certificate chains can cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time
verifying signatures. With fix, the size of RSA keys transmitted during handshakes is restricted to <=
8192 bits. Based on a survey of publicly trusted RSA keys, there are currently only three certificates in
circulation with keys larger than this, and all three appear to be test certificates that are not actively
deployed. It is possible there are larger keys in use in private PKIs, but we target the web PKI, so
causing breakage here in the interests of increasing the default safety of users of crypto/tls seems
reasonable. (CVE-2023-29409)
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/ALAS-2023-1849.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-41723.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-29406.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-29409.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update containerd' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-29406");
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:"2023/02/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/09/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/10/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd-stress");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
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) 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 != "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);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'containerd-1.4.13-5.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'containerd-debuginfo-1.4.13-5.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'containerd-stress-1.4.13-5.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', '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, "containerd / containerd-debuginfo / containerd-stress");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
amazon | linux | containerd | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd |
amazon | linux | containerd-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | containerd-stress | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd-stress |
amazon | linux | cpe:/o:amazon:linux |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-41723
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29406
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29409
alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2023-1849.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-41723.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-29406.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-29409.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html