CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
73.5%
In HtmlUnit, a GUI-Less browser for Java programs, malicious JavaScript code was able to execute arbitrary Java code on the application.
For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 2.8-2+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your htmlunit packages.
For the detailed security status of htmlunit please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/htmlunit
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-2326-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(139624);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/26");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-5529");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2326-1 : htmlunit security update");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"In HtmlUnit, a GUI-Less browser for Java programs, malicious
JavaScript code was able to execute arbitrary Java code on the
application.
For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version
2.8-2+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your htmlunit packages.
For the detailed security status of htmlunit please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/htmlunit
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00023.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/htmlunit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/htmlunit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the affected libhtmlunit-java package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-5529");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/02/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/08/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/08/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libhtmlunit-java");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libhtmlunit-java", reference:"2.8-2+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
73.5%