Executive Summary

Summary
Title Fossil: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-201801-20 First vendor Publication 2018-01-27
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-01-27
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in Fossil allowing for user-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Fossil is a simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system.

Description

Fossil does not properly validate SSH sync protocol URLs.

Impact

A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted URL, could possibly execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Fossil users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/fossil-2.4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-17459 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17459

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-20

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201801-20.xml

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-01-29 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201801-20.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-14 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-1365.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-01-27 21:19:44
  • First insertion