It was discovered that xapian-omega, a CGI interface for searching xapian databases, is not properly escaping user-supplied input when printing exceptions. An attacker can use this to conduct cross-site scripting attacks via crafted search queries resulting in an exception and steal potentially sensitive data from web applications running on the same domain or embedding the search engine into a website.
#%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-1882. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(44747);
script_version("1.11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2947");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1882");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1882-1 : xapian-omega - missing input sanitization");
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:
"It was discovered that xapian-omega, a CGI interface for searching
xapian databases, is not properly escaping user-supplied input when
printing exceptions. An attacker can use this to conduct cross-site
scripting attacks via crafted search queries resulting in an exception
and steal potentially sensitive data from web applications running on
the same domain or embedding the search engine into a website."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1882"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the xapian-omega packages.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.9-1+etch1.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.7-3+lenny1."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_cwe_id(79);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xapian-omega");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/09/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/02/24");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
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:"4.0", prefix:"xapian-omega", reference:"0.9.9-1+etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"xapian-omega", reference:"1.0.7-3+lenny1")) 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 | xapian-omega | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xapian-omega |
debian | debian_linux | 4.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0 |
debian | debian_linux | 5.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0 |