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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : polkit (SUSE-SU-2022:0190-1)

2022-01-2600:00:00
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suse
sled15
sles15
sles_sap15
security update
polkit
vulnerability
local privilege escalation
pkexec
cve-2021-4034

CVSS2

7.2

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

7.8

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

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

46.9%

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0190-1 advisory.

  • A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit’s pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn’t handle the calling parameters count correctly and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting environment variables in such a way it’ll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfully executed the attack can cause a local privilege escalation given unprivileged users administrative rights on the target machine. (CVE-2021-4034)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2022:0190-1. The text itself
# is copyright (C) SUSE.
##

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(157074);
  script_version("1.14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/07/13");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-4034");
  script_xref(name:"SuSE", value:"SUSE-SU-2022:0190-1");
  script_xref(name:"CISA-KNOWN-EXPLOITED", value:"2022/07/18");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2022-A-0055");

  script_name(english:"SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : polkit (SUSE-SU-2022:0190-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as
referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0190-1 advisory.

  - A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is
    a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according
    predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters count correctly
    and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting
    environment variables in such a way it'll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfully
    executed the attack can cause a local privilege escalation given unprivileged users administrative rights
    on the target machine. (CVE-2021-4034)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194568");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2022-January/021462.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4034");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected libpolkit0, polkit, polkit-devel and / or typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0 packages.");
  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:H/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:H/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-4034");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Local Privilege Escalation in polkits pkexec');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_canvas", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"canvas_package", value:"CANVAS");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/01/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/01/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/01/26");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpolkit0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:polkit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:polkit-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15");
  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:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");

  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/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || os_release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)(?:_SAP)?\d+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'SUSE');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLED15|SLES15|SLES_SAP15)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15', 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')');

if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/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, 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')', cpu);

var service_pack = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(service_pack)) service_pack = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLED15" && (! preg(pattern:"^(3)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLED15 SP3", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);
if (os_ver == "SLES15" && (! preg(pattern:"^(2|3)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES15 SP2/3", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);
if (os_ver == "SLES_SAP15" && (! preg(pattern:"^(2)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES_SAP15 SP2", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'libpolkit0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES_SAP15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES_SAP15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-devel-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES_SAP15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES_SAP15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'libpolkit0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-ESPOS-release-2']},
    {'reference':'libpolkit0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-ESPOS-release-2', 'sles-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-ESPOS-release-2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-ESPOS-release-2', 'sles-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-devel-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-ESPOS-release-2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-devel-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-ESPOS-release-2', 'sles-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-ESPOS-release-2']},
    {'reference':'typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-ESPOS-release-2', 'sles-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'libpolkit0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-LTSS-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'libpolkit0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-LTSS-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-LTSS-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-LTSS-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-devel-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-LTSS-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-devel-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-LTSS-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-LTSS-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-LTSS-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'libpolkit0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLED15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sle-module-basesystem-release-15.3']},
    {'reference':'libpolkit0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sle-module-basesystem-release-15.3']},
    {'reference':'polkit-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLED15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sle-module-basesystem-release-15.3']},
    {'reference':'polkit-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sle-module-basesystem-release-15.3']},
    {'reference':'polkit-devel-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLED15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sle-module-basesystem-release-15.3']},
    {'reference':'polkit-devel-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sle-module-basesystem-release-15.3']},
    {'reference':'typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLED15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sle-module-basesystem-release-15.3']},
    {'reference':'typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sle-module-basesystem-release-15.3']},
    {'reference':'libpolkit0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-ltss-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-ltss-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'polkit-devel-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-ltss-release-15.2']},
    {'reference':'typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.116-3.6.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-ltss-release-15.2']}
];

var ltss_caveat_required = FALSE;
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 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['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (reference && _release) {
    if (exists_check) {
      var check_flag = 0;
      foreach var check (exists_check) {
        if (!rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:check)) continue;
        if ('ltss' >< tolower(check)) ltss_caveat_required = TRUE;
        check_flag++;
      }
      if (!check_flag) continue;
    }
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var ltss_plugin_caveat = NULL;
  if(ltss_caveat_required) ltss_plugin_caveat = '\n' +
    'NOTE: This vulnerability check contains fixes that apply to\n' +
    'packages only available in SUSE Enterprise Linux Server LTSS\n' +
    'repositories. Access to these package security updates require\n' +
    'a paid SUSE LTSS subscription.\n';
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get() + ltss_plugin_caveat
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libpolkit0 / polkit / polkit-devel / typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0');
}

CVSS2

7.2

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

7.8

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

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

46.9%