Dominic Scheirlinck and Scott Geary of Vend reported insecure behavior in the lighttpd web server. Lighttpd assigned Proxy header values from client requests to internal HTTP_PROXY environment variables, allowing remote attackers to carry out Man in the Middle (MITM) attacks or initiate connections to arbitrary hosts.
#%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-3642. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(92955);
script_version("2.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1000212");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3642");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3642-1 : lighttpd - security update");
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:
"Dominic Scheirlinck and Scott Geary of Vend reported insecure behavior
in the lighttpd web server. Lighttpd assigned Proxy header values from
client requests to internal HTTP_PROXY environment variables, allowing
remote attackers to carry out Man in the Middle (MITM) attacks or
initiate connections to arbitrary hosts."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832571"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/lighttpd"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3642"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the lighttpd packages.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.35-4+deb8u1."
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lighttpd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/08/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/08/15");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 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:"8.0", prefix:"lighttpd", reference:"1.4.35-4+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"lighttpd-doc", reference:"1.4.35-4+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"lighttpd-mod-cml", reference:"1.4.35-4+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"lighttpd-mod-magnet", reference:"1.4.35-4+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost", reference:"1.4.35-4+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl", reference:"1.4.35-4+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"lighttpd-mod-webdav", reference:"1.4.35-4+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | lighttpd | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lighttpd |
debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0 |