A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in smokeping, a latency logging and graphing system. Input passed to the 'displaymode’parameter was not properly sanitized. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in the context of an affected site.
#%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-2651. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(65635);
script_version("1.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-0790");
script_bugtraq_id(51584);
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2651");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2651-1 : smokeping - XSS vulnerability");
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:
"A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in smokeping, a
latency logging and graphing system. Input passed to the
'displaymode'parameter was not properly sanitized. An attacker could
use this flaw to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in the context of an affected site."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659899"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/smokeping"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2651"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the smokeping packages.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.6-5+squeeze1."
);
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:smokeping");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/03/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/03/21");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2021 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:"smokeping", reference:"2.3.6-5+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 |
---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | smokeping |
debian | debian_linux | 6.0 |