PT-2019-6666 · Greenbone Networks · Openvas-Scanner

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2019-11-25 · Updated 2019-12-11 · CVE-2011-3351

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions openvas-scanner versions prior to 2011-09-11

Description The issue allows a local attacker to conduct symlink attacks, potentially overwriting arbitrary files on the system. This is due to the insecure creation of a temporary file when generating OVAL system characteristics documents with the ovaldi integrated tool enabled.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2011-09-11, update to a version released after 2011-09-11 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the ovaldi integrated tool until a patch is available. Restrict access to the temporary files generated by openvas-scanner to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-3351

Affected Products

Openvas-Scanner

References · 6

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3351 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3351 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/8306 · Telegram Post
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3351 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 · Note