A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the XMLRPC module of the PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) extension of PHP. By sending specially crafted XMLRPC requests to an affected web server, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the web server’s privileges.
In Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog), the PEAR extension is unsupported (it is contained in the php4-universe package which is part of universe).
However, since this is a highly critical vulnerability, that package was fixed as well.
Please note that many applications contain a copy of the affected XMLRPC code, which must be fixed separately. The following packages may also be affected, but are unsupported in Ubuntu :
These packages might be fixed by the community later.
The following common third-party applications are affected as well, but not packaged for Ubuntu :
If you run any affected software, please upgrade them as soon as possible to protect your server.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-147-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
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script_id(20541);
script_version("1.19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-1921");
script_bugtraq_id(14088);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"147-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : php4, php4-universe vulnerability (USN-147-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the
XMLRPC module of the PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository)
extension of PHP. By sending specially crafted XMLRPC requests to an
affected web server, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute
arbitrary code with the web server's privileges.
In Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog), the PEAR extension is unsupported (it
is contained in the php4-universe package which is part of universe).
However, since this is a highly critical vulnerability, that package
was fixed as well.
Please note that many applications contain a copy of the affected
XMLRPC code, which must be fixed separately. The following packages
may also be affected, but are unsupported in Ubuntu :
- drupal - wordpress - phpwiki - horde3 - ewiki -
egroupware - phpgroupware
These packages might be fixed by the community later.
The following common third-party applications are affected as well,
but not packaged for Ubuntu :
- Serendipity - Postnuke - tikiwiki - phpwebsite
If you run any affected software, please upgrade them as soon as
possible to protect your server.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
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:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'PHP XML-RPC Arbitrary Code Execution');
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache-mod-php4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-php4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-cgi");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-curl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-domxml");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-gd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-imap");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-ldap");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-mcal");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-mhash");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-mysql");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-odbc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-pear");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-recode");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-snmp");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-sybase");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-universe-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-xslt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/07/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/01/15");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! ereg(pattern:"^(4\.10|5\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libapache-mod-php4", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libapache2-mod-php4", pkgver:"4.3.8-3ubuntu7.9")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4", pkgver:"4.3.8-3ubuntu7.9")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-cgi", pkgver:"4.3.8-3ubuntu7.9")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-curl", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-dev", pkgver:"4.3.8-3ubuntu7.9")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-domxml", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-gd", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-imap", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-ldap", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-mcal", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-mhash", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-mysql", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-odbc", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-pear", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-recode", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-snmp", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-sybase", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-universe-common", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"php4-xslt", pkgver:"4.3.10-10ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libapache-mod-php4 / libapache2-mod-php4 / php4 / php4-cgi / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libapache-mod-php4 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache-mod-php4 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libapache2-mod-php4 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-php4 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | php4 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | php4-cgi | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-cgi |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | php4-curl | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-curl |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | php4-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | php4-domxml | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-domxml |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | php4-gd | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-gd |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | php4-imap | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-imap |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | php4-ldap | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-ldap |