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Photon OS 2.0: Libxml2 PHSA-2020-2.0-0285

2020-09-2100:00:00
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15

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

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

7.8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

69.5%

An update of the libxml2 package has been released.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2020-2.0-0285. The text
# itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc.

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(140716);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2020-24977");

  script_name(english:"Photon OS 2.0: Libxml2 PHSA-2020-2.0-0285");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"An update of the libxml2 package has been released.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-2-285.md");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected Linux packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-24977");

  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:"2020/09/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/09/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/09/21");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:libxml2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:2.0");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"PhotonOS 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/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/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/PhotonOS/release');
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'PhotonOS');
if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 2\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'PhotonOS 2.0');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/PhotonOS/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$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'PhotonOS', cpu);

flag = 0;

if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-2.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'libxml2-2.9.10-3.ph2')) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-2.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'libxml2-devel-2.9.10-3.ph2')) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-2.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'libxml2-python-2.9.10-3.ph2')) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    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, 'libxml2');
}


VendorProductVersionCPE
vmwarephotonoslibxml2p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:libxml2
vmwarephotonos2.0cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:2.0

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

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

7.8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

69.5%