SB20240806334 - Amazon Linux AMI update for rust
Published: August 6, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.
1) UNIX symbolic link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36113)
CWE-ID: CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to corrupt arbitrary files on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a symlink following issue. A remote attacker can add a malicious ".cargo-ok" symbolic link into the package, point the link to an arbitrary file on the system and corrupt it during package extraction.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36114)
CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing .zip files. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack, aka "zip bomb" attack.
3) Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-46176)
CWE-ID: CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to Cargo does not perform SSH host key verification when cloning indexes and dependencies via SSH. A remote attacker can perform MitM attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.