CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
72.5%
Update to 1.2.6 to fix a local authenticated privilege escalation bug (CVE-2018-10900).
The issue has been discovered and responsibly disclosed by Denis Andzakovic: https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2018-ac02463f82.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(111361);
script_version("1.8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/09/02");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-10900");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2018-ac02463f82");
script_name(english:"Fedora 27 : 1:NetworkManager-vpnc (2018-ac02463f82)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Update to 1.2.6 to fix a local authenticated privilege escalation bug
(CVE-2018-10900).
The issue has been discovered and responsibly disclosed by Denis
Andzakovic: https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as
possible without introducing additional issues.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ac02463f82");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected 1:NetworkManager-vpnc package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-10900");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Network Manager VPNC Username Privilege Escalation');
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/07/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/07/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/07/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:1:NetworkManager-vpnc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/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/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^27([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 27", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC27", reference:"NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.6-1.fc27", epoch:"1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "1:NetworkManager-vpnc");
}
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
72.5%