XWiki Authentication Failure Information Reset Vulnerability (GHSA-5c66-v29h-xjh8)

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:xwiki:xwiki";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.146214");
  script_version("2025-11-19T05:40:23+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-11-19 05:40:23 +0000 (Wed, 19 Nov 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-07-05 02:58:44 +0000 (Mon, 05 Jul 2021)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-07-09 13:30:00 +0000 (Fri, 09 Jul 2021)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-32729");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("XWiki Authentication Failure Information Reset Vulnerability (GHSA-5c66-v29h-xjh8)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_xwiki_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("xwiki/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"XWiki is prone to a vulnerability where a user without PR can
  reset user authentication failures information.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The script service method used to reset the authentication failures
  record can be executed by any user with Script rights and does not require Programming rights as
  it should have.

  Note that being able to reset the authentication failure record mean that an attacker with script
  right might use it to try performing a bruteforce attack since she'd been able to virtually
  deactivate the mechanism introduced to mitigate those attacks.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"XWiki version 11.6 through 12.6.7 and 12.7 through 12.10.3.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 12.6.8, 12.10.4 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-m738-3rc4-5xv3");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-18276");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
  exit(0);

if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "11.6", test_version2: "12.6.7")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.6.8", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "12.7", test_version2: "12.10.3")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.10.4", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);