Vulnerability in lynis
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A vulnerability tracked as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13882 has been found in lynis.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade lynis to 3.0.0-1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "lynis DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13882" on the vendor's site.
DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13882 (lynis)
Attack vector: local
Patched: 3.0.0-1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in lynis.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of lynis.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 3.0.0-1.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'lynis' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1
Identify exposureidentify
grep -r 'lynis' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
lynisを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
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Apply patchpatch
Upgrade lynis to 3.0.0-1ステージング環境で 3.0.0-1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3
Post-deployment verificationverify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | lynis |
< 3.0.0-1 |
3.0.0-1 |
| Debian:13 | lynis |
< 3.0.0-1 |
3.0.0-1 |
| Debian:14 | lynis |
< 3.0.0-1 |
3.0.0-1 |
Original description The description as published by the source.
CISOfy Lynis before 3.0.0 has Incorrect Access Control because of a TOCTOU race condition. The routine to check the log and report file permissions was not working as intended and could be bypassed locally. Because of the race, an unprivileged attacker can set up a log and report file, and control that up to the point where the specific routine is doing its check. After that, the file can be removed, recreated, and used for additional attacks.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org