5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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
7.5 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.119 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.4%
The version of OpenSSL installed on the remote host is prior to 3.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 3.0.1 advisory.
There is a carry propagation bug in the MIPS32 and MIPS64 squaring procedure. Many EC algorithms are affected, including some of the TLS 1.3 default curves. Impact was not analyzed in detail, because the pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely and include reusing private keys. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server would have to share the DH private key among multiple clients, which is no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701. This issue affects OpenSSL versions 1.0.2, 1.1.1 and 3.0.0. It was addressed in the releases of 1.1.1m and 3.0.1 on the 15th of December 2021. For the 1.0.2 release it is addressed in git commit 6fc1aaaf3 that is available to premium support customers only. It will be made available in 1.0.2zc when it is released. The issue only affects OpenSSL on MIPS platforms. Fixed in OpenSSL 3.0.1 (Affected 3.0.0). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1m (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1l). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2zc- dev (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2zb). (CVE-2021-4160)
Internally libssl in OpenSSL calls X509_verify_cert() on the client side to verify a certificate supplied by a server. That function may return a negative return value to indicate an internal error (for example out of memory). Such a negative return value is mishandled by OpenSSL and will cause an IO function (such as SSL_connect() or SSL_do_handshake()) to not indicate success and a subsequent call to SSL_get_error() to return the value SSL_ERROR_WANT_RETRY_VERIFY. This return value is only supposed to be returned by OpenSSL if the application has previously called SSL_CTX_set_cert_verify_callback(). Since most applications do not do this the SSL_ERROR_WANT_RETRY_VERIFY return value from SSL_get_error() will be totally unexpected and applications may not behave correctly as a result. The exact behaviour will depend on the application but it could result in crashes, infinite loops or other similar incorrect responses.
This issue is made more serious in combination with a separate bug in OpenSSL 3.0 that will cause X509_verify_cert() to indicate an internal error when processing a certificate chain. This will occur where a certificate does not include the Subject Alternative Name extension but where a Certificate Authority has enforced name constraints. This issue can occur even with valid chains. By combining the two issues an attacker could induce incorrect, application dependent behaviour. Fixed in OpenSSL 3.0.1 (Affected 3.0.0). (CVE-2021-4044)
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 70300
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(156100);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/06/07");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-4044", "CVE-2021-4160");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2021-A-0602-S");
script_name(english:"OpenSSL 3.0.0 < 3.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote service is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of OpenSSL installed on the remote host is prior to 3.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the 3.0.1 advisory.
- There is a carry propagation bug in the MIPS32 and MIPS64 squaring procedure. Many EC algorithms are
affected, including some of the TLS 1.3 default curves. Impact was not analyzed in detail, because the
pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely and include reusing private keys. Analysis suggests that
attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not
believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just feasible (although very difficult) because most of
the work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount of
resources required for such an attack would be significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be
meaningful, the server would have to share the DH private key among multiple clients, which is no longer
an option since CVE-2016-0701. This issue affects OpenSSL versions 1.0.2, 1.1.1 and 3.0.0. It was
addressed in the releases of 1.1.1m and 3.0.1 on the 15th of December 2021. For the 1.0.2 release it is
addressed in git commit 6fc1aaaf3 that is available to premium support customers only. It will be made
available in 1.0.2zc when it is released. The issue only affects OpenSSL on MIPS platforms. Fixed in
OpenSSL 3.0.1 (Affected 3.0.0). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1m (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1l). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2zc-
dev (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2zb). (CVE-2021-4160)
- Internally libssl in OpenSSL calls X509_verify_cert() on the client side to verify a certificate supplied
by a server. That function may return a negative return value to indicate an internal error (for example
out of memory). Such a negative return value is mishandled by OpenSSL and will cause an IO function (such
as SSL_connect() or SSL_do_handshake()) to not indicate success and a subsequent call to SSL_get_error()
to return the value SSL_ERROR_WANT_RETRY_VERIFY. This return value is only supposed to be returned by
OpenSSL if the application has previously called SSL_CTX_set_cert_verify_callback(). Since most
applications do not do this the SSL_ERROR_WANT_RETRY_VERIFY return value from SSL_get_error() will be
totally unexpected and applications may not behave correctly as a result. The exact behaviour will depend
on the application but it could result in crashes, infinite loops or other similar incorrect responses.
This issue is made more serious in combination with a separate bug in OpenSSL 3.0 that will cause
X509_verify_cert() to indicate an internal error when processing a certificate chain. This will occur
where a certificate does not include the Subject Alternative Name extension but where a Certificate
Authority has enforced name constraints. This issue can occur even with valid chains. By combining the two
issues an attacker could induce incorrect, application dependent behaviour. Fixed in OpenSSL 3.0.1
(Affected 3.0.0). (CVE-2021-4044)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
# https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=3bf7b73ea7123045b8f972badc67ed6878e6c37f
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?0a9d0779");
# https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=758754966791c537ea95241438454aa86f91f256
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ca290235");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4044");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4160");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20211214.txt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20220128.txt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to OpenSSL version 3.0.1 or later.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"agent", value:"all");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/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:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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-2021-4160");
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:"2021/12/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/12/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/12/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"combined");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:openssl:openssl");
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:"Web Servers");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("openssl_version.nasl", "openssl_nix_installed.nbin", "openssl_win_installed.nbin");
script_require_keys("installed_sw/OpenSSL");
exit(0);
}
include('vcf.inc');
include('vcf_extras_openssl.inc');
var app_info = vcf::combined_get_app_info(app:'OpenSSL');
vcf::check_all_backporting(app_info:app_info);
var constraints = [
{ 'min_version' : '3.0.0', 'fixed_version' : '3.0.1' }
];
vcf::openssl::check_version_and_report(
app_info:app_info,
constraints:constraints,
severity:SECURITY_WARNING
);
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4044
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4160
www.nessus.org/u?0a9d0779
www.nessus.org/u?ca290235
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4044
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4160
www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20211214.txt
www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20220128.txt
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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
7.5 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.119 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.4%