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HistoryAug 14, 2006 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : x11vnc -- authentication bypass vulnerability (9dda3ff1-2b02-11db-a6e2-000e0c2e438a)

2006-08-1400:00:00
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168

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.05 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.9%

Ludwig Nussel reports that x11vnc is vulnerable to an authentication bypass vulnerability. The vulnerability is caused by an error in auth.c. This could allow a remote attacker to gain unauthorized and unauthenticated access to the system.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
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#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(22212);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-2450");
  script_bugtraq_id(18977);

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : x11vnc -- authentication bypass vulnerability (9dda3ff1-2b02-11db-a6e2-000e0c2e438a)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Ludwig Nussel reports that x11vnc is vulnerable to an authentication
bypass vulnerability. The vulnerability is caused by an error in
auth.c. This could allow a remote attacker to gain unauthorized and
unauthenticated access to the system."
  );
  # http://bugs.debian.org/376824
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376824"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/9dda3ff1-2b02-11db-a6e2-000e0c2e438a.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?2ef70d2e"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  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:freebsd:freebsd:x11vnc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/08/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/08/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/08/14");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"x11vnc<0.8.2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdx11vncp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:x11vnc
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.05 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.9%