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HistorySep 10, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-2540-1 : mahara - XSS

2012-09-1000:00:00
This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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6.1 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

Access Complexity

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

0.008 Low

EPSS

Percentile

81.5%

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that Mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder, contains multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities due to missing sanitization and insufficient encoding of user-supplied data.

#%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-2540. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(62011);
  script_version("1.12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-2237");
  script_bugtraq_id(54776);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2540");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2540-1 : mahara - XSS");
  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:
"Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that Mahara, an electronic portfolio,
weblog, and resume builder, contains multiple cross-site scripting
vulnerabilities due to missing sanitization and insufficient encoding
of user-supplied data."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/mahara"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2540"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the mahara packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.2.6-2+squeeze5."
  );
  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:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  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:6.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/12/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/09/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/09/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  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:"mahara", reference:"1.2.6-2+squeeze5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"mahara-apache2", reference:"1.2.6-2+squeeze5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"mahara-mediaplayer", reference:"1.2.6-2+squeeze5")) 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");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxmaharap-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mahara
debiandebian_linux6.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

6.1 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

Access Complexity

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

0.008 Low

EPSS

Percentile

81.5%

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