Qualys Vulnerability & Malware Research Labs discovered a vulnerability in ModSecurity, a security module for the Apache webserver. In situations where both โContent:Disposition: attachmentโ and โContent-Type: multipartโ were present in HTTP headers, the vulnerability could allow an attacker to bypass policy and execute cross-site script (XSS) attacks through properly crafted HTML documents.
#%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-2506. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(59825);
script_version("1.14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-2751");
script_bugtraq_id(54156);
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2506");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2506-1 : libapache-mod-security - ModSecurity bypass");
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:
"Qualys Vulnerability & Malware Research Labs discovered a
vulnerability in ModSecurity, a security module for the Apache
webserver. In situations where both 'Content:Disposition: attachment'
and 'Content-Type: multipart' were present in HTTP headers, the
vulnerability could allow an attacker to bypass policy and execute
cross-site script (XSS) attacks through properly crafted HTML
documents."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678529"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/libapache-mod-security"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2506"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the libapache-mod-security packages.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.12-1+squeeze1.
In testing and unstable distribution, the source package has been
renamed to modsecurity-apache."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapache-mod-security");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/07/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/07/03");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 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:"6.0", prefix:"libapache-mod-security", reference:"2.5.12-1+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"mod-security-common", reference:"2.5.12-1+squeeze1")) 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 | libapache-mod-security | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapache-mod-security |
debian | debian_linux | 6.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0 |