The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5998-1 advisory.
JMSSink in all versions of Log4j 1.x is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data when the attacker has write access to the Log4j configuration or if the configuration references an LDAP service the attacker has access to. The attacker can provide a TopicConnectionFactoryBindingName configuration causing JMSSink to perform JNDI requests that result in remote code execution in a similar fashion to CVE-2021-4104. Note this issue only affects Log4j 1.x when specifically configured to use JMSSink, which is not the default. Apache Log4j 1.2 reached end of life in August 2015. Users should upgrade to Log4j 2 as it addresses numerous other issues from the previous versions. (CVE-2022-23302)
By design, the JDBCAppender in Log4j 1.2.x accepts an SQL statement as a configuration parameter where the values to be inserted are converters from PatternLayout. The message converter, %m, is likely to always be included. This allows attackers to manipulate the SQL by entering crafted strings into input fields or headers of an application that are logged allowing unintended SQL queries to be executed. Note this issue only affects Log4j 1.x when specifically configured to use the JDBCAppender, which is not the default.
Beginning in version 2.0-beta8, the JDBCAppender was re-introduced with proper support for parameterized SQL queries and further customization over the columns written to in logs. Apache Log4j 1.2 reached end of life in August 2015. Users should upgrade to Log4j 2 as it addresses numerous other issues from the previous versions. (CVE-2022-23305)
CVE-2020-9493 identified a deserialization issue that was present in Apache Chainsaw. Prior to Chainsaw V2.0 Chainsaw was a component of Apache Log4j 1.2.x where the same issue exists. (CVE-2022-23307)
Included in Log4j 1.2 is a SocketServer class that is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data which can be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code when combined with a deserialization gadget when listening to untrusted network traffic for log data. This affects Log4j versions up to 1.2 up to 1.2.17.
(CVE-2019-17571)
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 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5998-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(173949);
script_version("1.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/16");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2019-17571",
"CVE-2022-23302",
"CVE-2022-23305",
"CVE-2022-23307"
);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"5998-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Apache Log4j vulnerabilities (USN-5998-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5998-1 advisory.
- JMSSink in all versions of Log4j 1.x is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data when the attacker
has write access to the Log4j configuration or if the configuration references an LDAP service the
attacker has access to. The attacker can provide a TopicConnectionFactoryBindingName configuration causing
JMSSink to perform JNDI requests that result in remote code execution in a similar fashion to
CVE-2021-4104. Note this issue only affects Log4j 1.x when specifically configured to use JMSSink, which
is not the default. Apache Log4j 1.2 reached end of life in August 2015. Users should upgrade to Log4j 2
as it addresses numerous other issues from the previous versions. (CVE-2022-23302)
- By design, the JDBCAppender in Log4j 1.2.x accepts an SQL statement as a configuration parameter where the
values to be inserted are converters from PatternLayout. The message converter, %m, is likely to always be
included. This allows attackers to manipulate the SQL by entering crafted strings into input fields or
headers of an application that are logged allowing unintended SQL queries to be executed. Note this issue
only affects Log4j 1.x when specifically configured to use the JDBCAppender, which is not the default.
Beginning in version 2.0-beta8, the JDBCAppender was re-introduced with proper support for parameterized
SQL queries and further customization over the columns written to in logs. Apache Log4j 1.2 reached end of
life in August 2015. Users should upgrade to Log4j 2 as it addresses numerous other issues from the
previous versions. (CVE-2022-23305)
- CVE-2020-9493 identified a deserialization issue that was present in Apache Chainsaw. Prior to Chainsaw
V2.0 Chainsaw was a component of Apache Log4j 1.2.x where the same issue exists. (CVE-2022-23307)
- Included in Log4j 1.2 is a SocketServer class that is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data
which can be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code when combined with a deserialization gadget when
listening to untrusted network traffic for log data. This affects Log4j versions up to 1.2 up to 1.2.17.
(CVE-2019-17571)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5998-1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected liblog4j1.2-java package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/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:N/AC:L/PR:N/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-2022-23307");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-23305");
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:"2019/12/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/04/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/04/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblog4j1.2-java");
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) 2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 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 || '20.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04 / 20.04', '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': 'liblog4j1.2-java', 'pkgver': '1.2.17-7ubuntu1+esm1'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'liblog4j1.2-java', 'pkgver': '1.2.17-8+deb10u1ubuntu0.2'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'liblog4j1.2-java', 'pkgver': '1.2.17-9ubuntu0.2'}
];
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_HOLE,
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, 'liblog4j1.2-java');
}