5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.012 Low
EPSS
Percentile
85.0%
David Maciejak noticed that webcalendar, a PHP-based multi-user calendar, returns different error messages on login attempts for an invalid password and a non-existing user, allowing remote attackers to gain information about valid usernames.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1056. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(22598);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2006-2247");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1056");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1056-1 : webcalendar - verbose error message");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"David Maciejak noticed that webcalendar, a PHP-based multi-user
calendar, returns different error messages on login attempts for an
invalid password and a non-existing user, allowing remote attackers to
gain information about valid usernames."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=366927"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1056"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the webcalendar package.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a webcalendar
package.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.45-4sarge4."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:webcalendar");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/05/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/10/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/05/04");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
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:"3.1", prefix:"webcalendar", reference:"0.9.45-4sarge4")) 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");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | webcalendar | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:webcalendar |
debian | debian_linux | 3.1 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1 |