Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-5528 - Unspecified vulnerability in VMWare Esxi 6.5/6.7

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from VMware Security Advisory 2019-0011. 
# The text itself is copyright (C) VMware Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(126699);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/08");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-5528");
  script_xref(name:"VMSA", value:"2019-0011");

  script_name(english:"VMSA-2019-0011 : ESXi patches address partial denial of service vulnerability in hostd process");
  script_summary(english:"Checks esxupdate output for the patches");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote VMware ESXi host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Multiple failed login attempts to ESXi may cause the hostd service to
become unresponsive resulting in a partial denial of service for
management functionality.

A malicious actor with network access to an ESXi host could create a
partial denial of service condition in management functionality.
Successful exploitation of this issue may cause hostd to become
unresponsive resulting in conditions such as an ESXi host
disconnecting from vCenter."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2019/000461.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Apply the missing patches.");
  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:L");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-5528");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:esxi:6.5");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/07/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/07/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/07/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"VMware ESX Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/VMware/release", "Host/VMware/version");
  script_require_ports("Host/VMware/esxupdate", "Host/VMware/esxcli_software_vibs");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("vmware_esx_packages.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/VMware/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "VMware ESX / ESXi");
if (
  !get_kb_item("Host/VMware/esxcli_software_vibs") &&
  !get_kb_item("Host/VMware/esxupdate")
) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


init_esx_check(date:"2019-07-09");
flag = 0;


if (esx_check(ver:"ESXi 6.5", vib:"VMware:esx-base:6.5.0-3.96.13932383")) flag++;
if (esx_check(ver:"ESXi 6.5", vib:"VMware:esx-tboot:6.5.0-3.96.13932383")) flag++;
if (esx_check(ver:"ESXi 6.5", vib:"VMware:vsan:6.5.0-3.96.13371499")) flag++;
if (esx_check(ver:"ESXi 6.5", vib:"VMware:vsanhealth:6.5.0-3.96.13530496")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:esx_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");