Amazon Linux AMI update for amazon-efs-utils

1) Race condition

EUVDB-ID: #VU71689

Risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: 1.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-46174

CWE-ID: CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition within the Amazon EFS mount helper when using TLS to mount file systems. The mount helper allocates a local port for stunnel to receive NFS connections prior to applying the TLS tunnel. As a result, concurrent mount operations can allocate the same local port, leading to either failed mount operations or an inappropriate mapping from an EFS customer’s local mount points to that customer’s EFS file systems.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages:

noarch:
    amazon-efs-utils-1.35.0-1.amzn1.noarch

src:
    amazon-efs-utils-1.35.0-1.amzn1.src

Vulnerable software versions

Amazon Linux AMI: All versions

amazon-efs-utils: before 1.35.0-1

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:o:amazon_web_services:amazon_linux_ami:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:amazon_web_services:amazon-efs-utils:*:*:*:*:*:amazon_linux_ami:*:*

External links

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2023-1889.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.