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HistoryJun 21, 2019 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Mosquitto vulnerabilities (USN-4023-1)

2019-06-2100:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2019-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2019-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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12

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

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

77.1%

It was discovered that Mosquitto broker incorrectly handled certain specially crafted input and network packets. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4023-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(126096);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-7653", "CVE-2017-7654");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4023-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Mosquitto vulnerabilities (USN-4023-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It was discovered that Mosquitto broker incorrectly handled certain
specially crafted input and network packets. A remote attacker could
use this to cause a denial of service.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4023-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-7654");

  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:"2018/06/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/06/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/06/21");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquitto1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquittopp-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquittopp1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mosquitto");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mosquitto-clients");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mosquitto-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquitto-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2019-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2019-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

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

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('16.04' >< os_release || '18.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) 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, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libmosquitto-dev', 'pkgver': '1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libmosquitto1', 'pkgver': '1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libmosquittopp-dev', 'pkgver': '1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libmosquittopp1', 'pkgver': '1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'mosquitto', 'pkgver': '1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'mosquitto-clients', 'pkgver': '1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'mosquitto-dev', 'pkgver': '1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libmosquitto-dev', 'pkgver': '1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libmosquitto1', 'pkgver': '1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libmosquittopp-dev', 'pkgver': '1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libmosquittopp1', 'pkgver': '1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'mosquitto', 'pkgver': '1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'mosquitto-clients', 'pkgver': '1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'mosquitto-dev', 'pkgver': '1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libmosquitto-dev / libmosquitto1 / libmosquittopp-dev / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibmosquittopp1p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquittopp1
canonicalubuntu_linux16.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibmosquitto-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquitto-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxmosquitto-clientsp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mosquitto-clients
canonicalubuntu_linuxmosquitto-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mosquitto-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibmosquittopp-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquittopp-dev
canonicalubuntu_linux18.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linuxmosquittop-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mosquitto
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibmosquitto1p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquitto1

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

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

77.1%