CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
87.0%
The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2023:7714 advisory.
IN THE EXTENSION SCRIPT, a SQL Injection vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL if it uses @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:…@ inside a quoting construct (dollar quoting, ‘’, or ). If an administrator has installed files of a vulnerable, trusted, non-bundled extension, an attacker with database-level CREATE privilege can execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser. (CVE-2023-39417)
A memory disclosure vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL that allows remote users to access sensitive information by exploiting certain aggregate function calls with ‘unknown’-type arguments. Handling ‘unknown’-type values from string literals without type designation can disclose bytes, potentially revealing notable and confidential information. This issue exists due to excessive data output in aggregate function calls, enabling remote users to read some portion of system memory. (CVE-2023-5868)
A flaw was found in PostgreSQL that allows authenticated database users to execute arbitrary code through missing overflow checks during SQL array value modification. This issue exists due to an integer overflow during array modification where a remote user can trigger the overflow by providing specially crafted data. This enables the execution of arbitrary code on the target system, allowing users to write arbitrary bytes to memory and extensively read the server’s memory. (CVE-2023-5869)
A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack. (CVE-2023-5870)
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 package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# AlmaLinux Security Advisory ALSA-2023:7714.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(186945);
script_version("1.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/12/15");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2023-5868",
"CVE-2023-5869",
"CVE-2023-5870",
"CVE-2023-39417"
);
script_xref(name:"ALSA", value:"2023:7714");
script_name(english:"AlmaLinux 8 : postgresql:12 (ALSA-2023:7714)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
ALSA-2023:7714 advisory.
- IN THE EXTENSION SCRIPT, a SQL Injection vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL if it uses @extowner@,
@extschema@, or @extschema:...@ inside a quoting construct (dollar quoting, '', or ). If an
administrator has installed files of a vulnerable, trusted, non-bundled extension, an attacker with
database-level CREATE privilege can execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser. (CVE-2023-39417)
- A memory disclosure vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL that allows remote users to access sensitive
information by exploiting certain aggregate function calls with 'unknown'-type arguments. Handling
'unknown'-type values from string literals without type designation can disclose bytes, potentially
revealing notable and confidential information. This issue exists due to excessive data output in
aggregate function calls, enabling remote users to read some portion of system memory. (CVE-2023-5868)
- A flaw was found in PostgreSQL that allows authenticated database users to execute arbitrary code through
missing overflow checks during SQL array value modification. This issue exists due to an integer overflow
during array modification where a remote user can trigger the overflow by providing specially crafted
data. This enables the execution of arbitrary code on the target system, allowing users to write arbitrary
bytes to memory and extensively read the server's memory. (CVE-2023-5869)
- A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers,
including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful
exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that
specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of
service (DoS) attack. (CVE-2023-5870)
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://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-7714.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected pg_repack, pgaudit and / or postgres-decoderbufs packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/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:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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-2023-5869");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(89);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/08/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/12/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/12/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:pg_repack");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:pgaudit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgres-decoderbufs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Alma 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/AlmaLinux/release", "Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'AlmaLinux' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "AlmaLinux release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'AlmaLinux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux 8.x', 'AlmaLinux ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'AlmaLinux', cpu);
var module_ver = get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/appstream/postgresql');
if (isnull(module_ver)) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'Module postgresql:12');
if ('12' >!< module_ver) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, 'Module postgresql:' + module_ver);
var appstreams = {
'postgresql:12': [
{'reference':'pg_repack-1.4.6-3.module_el8.6.0+2758+4f4474df', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'pg_repack-1.4.6-3.module_el8.6.0+2758+4f4474df', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'pgaudit-1.4.0-5.module_el8.6.0+2758+4f4474df', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'pgaudit-1.4.0-5.module_el8.6.0+2758+4f4474df', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'postgres-decoderbufs-0.10.0-2.module_el8.6.0+2758+4f4474df', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'postgres-decoderbufs-0.10.0-2.module_el8.6.0+2758+4f4474df', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
]
};
var flag = 0;
var appstreams_found = 0;
foreach var module (keys(appstreams)) {
var appstream = NULL;
var appstream_name = NULL;
var appstream_version = NULL;
var appstream_split = split(module, sep:':', keep:FALSE);
if (!empty_or_null(appstream_split)) {
appstream_name = appstream_split[0];
appstream_version = appstream_split[1];
if (!empty_or_null(appstream_name)) appstream = get_one_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/appstream/' + appstream_name);
}
if (!empty_or_null(appstream) && appstream_version == appstream || appstream_name == 'all') {
appstreams_found++;
foreach var package_array ( appstreams[module] ) {
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 = 'Alma-' + 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 (!appstreams_found) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'Module postgresql:12');
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, 'pg_repack / pgaudit / postgres-decoderbufs');
}
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
87.0%