Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :
CVE-2009-3298 Ruslan Kabalin discovered a issue with resetting passwords, which could lead to a privilege escalation of an institutional administrator account.
CVE-2009-3299 Sven Vetsch discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the resume fields.
#%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-1924. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(44789);
script_version("1.12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-3298", "CVE-2009-3299");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1924");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1924-1 : mahara - several vulnerabilities");
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:
"Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in mahara, an electronic
portfolio, weblog, and resume builder. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project identifies the following problems :
- CVE-2009-3298
Ruslan Kabalin discovered a issue with resetting
passwords, which could lead to a privilege escalation of
an institutional administrator account.
- CVE-2009-3299
Sven Vetsch discovered a cross-site scripting
vulnerability via the resume fields."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3298"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3299"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1924"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the mahara packages.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.4-4+lenny4.
The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_cwe_id(79, 264);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mahara");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/10/31");
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:"5.0", prefix:"mahara", reference:"1.0.4-4+lenny4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"mahara-apache2", reference:"1.0.4-4+lenny4")) 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 | mahara | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mahara |
debian | debian_linux | 5.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0 |