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HistoryNov 06, 2020 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-4783-1 : sddm - security update

2020-11-0600:00:00
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7

3.3 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

6.3 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

Fabian Vogt discovered a flaw in sddm, a modern display manager for X11. A local attacker can take advantage of a race condition when creating the Xauthority file to escalate privileges.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4783. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(142513);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/09");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2020-28049");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4783");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4783-1 : sddm - security update");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Fabian Vogt discovered a flaw in sddm, a modern display manager for
X11. A local attacker can take advantage of a race condition when
creating the Xauthority file to escalate privileges.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973748");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/sddm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/sddm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4783");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the sddm packages.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.18.0-1+deb10u1.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-28049");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/11/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/11/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/11/06");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sddm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"sddm", reference:"0.18.0-1+deb10u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"sddm-theme-debian-elarun", reference:"0.18.0-1+deb10u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"sddm-theme-debian-maui", reference:"0.18.0-1+deb10u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"sddm-theme-elarun", reference:"0.18.0-1+deb10u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"sddm-theme-maldives", reference:"0.18.0-1+deb10u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"sddm-theme-maui", reference:"0.18.0-1+deb10u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"sddm-theme-maya", reference:"0.18.0-1+deb10u1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxsddmp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sddm
debiandebian_linux10.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

3.3 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

6.3 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%