Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2022-1789) - Nessus

High Plugin ID: 160257

This page contains detailed information about the Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2022-1789) Nessus plugin including available exploits and PoCs found on GitHub, in Metasploit or Exploit-DB for verifying of this vulnerability.

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Plugin Overview
Vulnerability Information

Synopsis
Description
Solution

Public Exploits
Risk Information
Plugin Source
How to Run
References
Version

Plugin Overview

ID: 160257
Name: Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2022-1789)
Filename: al2_ALAS-2022-1789.nasl
Vulnerability Published: 2022-03-08
This Plugin Published: 2022-04-27
Last Modification Time: 2022-04-27
Plugin Version: 1.2
Plugin Type: local
Plugin Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Required KB Items [?]: Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Vulnerability Information

Severity: High
Vulnerability Published: 2022-03-08
Patch Published: 2022-04-25
CVE [?]: CVE-2022-1097, CVE-2022-1196, CVE-2022-1197, CVE-2022-24713, CVE-2022-28281, CVE-2022-28282, CVE-2022-28285, CVE-2022-28286, CVE-2022-28289
CPE [?]: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:thunderbird-debuginfo

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of thunderbird installed on the remote host is prior to 91.8.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1789 advisory.

- regex is an implementation of regular expressions for the Rust language. The regex crate features built-in mitigations to prevent denial of service attacks caused by untrusted regexes, or untrusted input matched by trusted regexes. Those (tunable) mitigations already provide sane defaults to prevent attacks. This guarantee is documented and it's considered part of the crate's API. Unfortunately a bug was discovered in the mitigations designed to prevent untrusted regexes to take an arbitrary amount of time during parsing, and it's possible to craft regexes that bypass such mitigations. This makes it possible to perform denial of service attacks by sending specially crafted regexes to services accepting user-controlled, untrusted regexes. All versions of the regex crate before or equal to 1.5.4 are affected by this issue. The fix is include starting from regex 1.5.5. All users accepting user-controlled regexes are recommended to upgrade immediately to the latest version of the regex crate. Unfortunately there is no fixed set of problematic regexes, as there are practically infinite regexes that could be crafted to exploit this vulnerability. Because of this, it us not recommend to deny known problematic regexes. (CVE-2022-24713)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update thunderbird' to update your system.

Public Exploits

Target Network Port(s): N/A
Target Asset(s): N/A
Exploit Available: True (GitHub)
Exploit Ease: Exploits (PoCs) are available

Here's the list of publicly known exploits and PoCs for verifying the Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2022-1789) vulnerability:

GitHub: https://github.com/0vercl0k/CVE-2022-28281
[CVE-2022-28281: PoC for CVE-2022-28281 a Mozilla Firefox Out of bounds write.]

Before running any exploit against any system, make sure you are authorized by the owner of the target system(s) to perform such activity. In any other case, this would be considered as an illegal activity.

WARNING: Beware of using unverified exploits from sources such as GitHub or Exploit-DB. These exploits and PoCs could contain malware. For more information, see how to use exploits safely.

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source [?]: CVE-2022-24713
CVSS V2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS Base Score:	5.0 (Medium)
Impact Subscore:	2.9
Exploitability Subscore:	10.0
CVSS Temporal Score:	3.7 (Low)
CVSS Environmental Score:	NA (None)
Modified Impact Subscore:	NA
Overall CVSS Score:	3.7 (Low)

CVSS V3 Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Base Score:	7.5 (High)
Impact Subscore:	3.6
Exploitability Subscore:	3.9
CVSS Temporal Score:	6.5 (Medium)
CVSS Environmental Score:	NA (None)
Modified Impact Subscore:	NA
Overall CVSS Score:	6.5 (Medium)

STIG Severity [?]: I
STIG Risk Rating: High

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Plugin Source

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2022-1789.
##

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(160257);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/04/27");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2022-1097",
    "CVE-2022-1196",
    "CVE-2022-1197",
    "CVE-2022-24713",
    "CVE-2022-28281",
    "CVE-2022-28282",
    "CVE-2022-28285",
    "CVE-2022-28286",
    "CVE-2022-28289"
  );
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2022-A-0134");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2022-1789");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2022-1789)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of thunderbird installed on the remote host is prior to 91.8.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1789 advisory.

  - regex is an implementation of regular expressions for the Rust language. The regex crate features built-in
    mitigations to prevent denial of service attacks caused by untrusted regexes, or untrusted input matched
    by trusted regexes. Those (tunable) mitigations already provide sane defaults to prevent attacks. This
    guarantee is documented and it's considered part of the crate's API. Unfortunately a bug was discovered in
    the mitigations designed to prevent untrusted regexes to take an arbitrary amount of time during parsing,
    and it's possible to craft regexes that bypass such mitigations. This makes it possible to perform denial
    of service attacks by sending specially crafted regexes to services accepting user-controlled, untrusted
    regexes. All versions of the regex crate before or equal to 1.5.4 are affected by this issue. The fix is
    include starting from regex 1.5.5. All users accepting user-controlled regexes are recommended to upgrade
    immediately to the latest version of the regex crate. Unfortunately there is no fixed set of problematic
    regexes, as there are practically infinite regexes that could be crafted to exploit this vulnerability.
    Because of this, it us not recommend to deny known problematic regexes. (CVE-2022-24713)

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://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2022-1789.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-1097.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-1196.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-1197.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-24713.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-28281.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-28282.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-28285.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-28286.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-28289.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update thunderbird' to update your system.");
  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-2022-24713");

  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:"2022/03/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/04/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/04/27");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:thunderbird");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:thunderbird-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

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

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

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

  exit(0);
}

include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

var release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'thunderbird-91.8.0-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
    {'reference':'thunderbird-91.8.0-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
    {'reference':'thunderbird-debuginfo-91.8.0-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
    {'reference':'thunderbird-debuginfo-91.8.0-1.amzn2.0.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var release = NULL;
  var cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var allowmaj = 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['cpu'])) cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (reference && release) {
    if (rpm_check(release:release, cpu:cpu, reference:reference, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "thunderbird / thunderbird-debuginfo");
}

The latest version of this script can be found in these locations depending on your platform:

Linux / Unix:
/opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins/al2_ALAS-2022-1789.nasl
Windows:
C:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus\nessus\plugins\al2_ALAS-2022-1789.nasl
Mac OS X:
/Library/Nessus/run/lib/nessus/plugins/al2_ALAS-2022-1789.nasl

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How to Run

Here is how to run the Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2022-1789) as a standalone plugin via the Nessus web user interface (https://localhost:8834/):

Click to start a New Scan.
Select Advanced Scan.
Navigate to the Plugins tab.
On the top right corner click to Disable All plugins.
On the left side table select Amazon Linux Local Security Checks plugin family.
On the right side table select Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2022-1789) plugin ID 160257.
Specify the target on the Settings tab and click to Save the scan.
Run the scan.

Here are a few examples of how to run the plugin in the command line. Note that the examples below demonstrate the usage on the Linux / Unix platform.

Basic usage:

/opt/nessus/bin/nasl al2_ALAS-2022-1789.nasl -t <IP/HOST>

Run the plugin with audit trail message on the console:

/opt/nessus/bin/nasl -a al2_ALAS-2022-1789.nasl -t <IP/HOST>

Run the plugin with trace script execution written to the console (useful for debugging):

/opt/nessus/bin/nasl -T - al2_ALAS-2022-1789.nasl -t <IP/HOST>

Run the plugin with using a state file for the target and updating it (useful for running multiple plugins on the target):

/opt/nessus/bin/nasl -K /tmp/state al2_ALAS-2022-1789.nasl -t <IP/HOST>

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References

IAVA | Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert:

2022-A-0134

ALAS | Amazon Linux Security Advisory:

2022-1789

See also:

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159532 - Slackware Linux 15.0 / current mozilla-firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2022-095-01)
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159600 - SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2022:1127-1)
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Version

This page has been produced using Nessus Professional 10.1.2 (#68) LINUX, Plugin set 202205072148.
Plugin file al2_ALAS-2022-1789.nasl version 1.2. For more plugins, visit the Nessus Plugin Library.

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Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2022-1789) - Nessus

Plugin Overview

Vulnerability Information

Synopsis

Description

Solution

Public Exploits

Risk Information

Plugin Source

How to Run

References

Version

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