CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
74.4%
OpenSSL is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:openssl:openssl";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.117063");
script_version("2024-02-19T05:05:57+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-19 05:05:57 +0000 (Mon, 19 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-04-22 06:05:59 +0000 (Wed, 22 Apr 2020)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-07-20 23:15:00 +0000 (Tue, 20 Jul 2021)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-1971");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("OpenSSL: EDIPARTYNAME NULL Pointer De-reference Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1971) - Linux");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_openssl_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("openssl/detected", "Host/runs_unixoide");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"OpenSSL is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The X.509 GeneralName type is a generic type for representing different
types of names. One of those name types is known as EDIPartyName. OpenSSL provides a function GENERAL_NAME_cmp
which compares different instances of a GENERAL_NAME to see if they are equal or not. This function behaves
incorrectly when both GENERAL_NAMEs contain an EDIPARTYNAME. A NULL pointer dereference and a crash may occur
leading to a possible denial of service attack.
OpenSSL itself uses the GENERAL_NAME_cmp function for two purposes:
1) Comparing CRL distribution point names between an available CRL and a CRL distribution point embedded in
an X509 certificate
2) When verifying that a timestamp response token signer matches the timestamp authority name (exposed via
the API functions TS_RESP_verify_response and TS_RESP_verify_token)
If an attacker can control both items being compared then that attacker could trigger a crash. For example if
the attacker can trick a client or server into checking a malicious certificate against a malicious CRL then
this may occur.
Note that some applications automatically download CRLs based on a URL embedded in a certificate. This checking
happens prior to the signatures on the certificate and CRL being verified. OpenSSL's s_server, s_client and verify
tools have support for the '-crl_download' option which implements automatic CRL downloading and this attack has
been demonstrated to work against those tools.
Note that an unrelated bug means that affected versions of OpenSSL cannot parse or construct correct encodings of
EDIPARTYNAME. However it is possible to construct a malformed EDIPARTYNAME that OpenSSL's parser will accept and
hence trigger this attack.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker may trigger a crash and cause a DoS.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"All OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 versions are affected by this issue.
OpenSSL 1.1.0 is out of support and no longer receiving updates of any kind. The impact of this issue on
OpenSSL 1.1.0 has not been analysed.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"OpenSSL 1.1.1 users should upgrade to 1.1.1i.
OpenSSL 1.0.2 is out of support and no longer receiving public updates. Premium support customers of OpenSSL 1.0.2
should upgrade to 1.0.2x. Other users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.1.1i.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20201208.txt");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "1.0.2", test_version2: "1.0.2w")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.0.2x / 1.1.1i", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version =~ "^1\.1\.0" || version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "1.1.1", test_version2: "1.1.1h")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.1.1i", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
74.4%