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Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:266 (awstats)

🗓️ 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.comType 
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Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:266 (awstats) addresses XSS vulnerability in AWStats 6.8 and earlier, allowing remote attackers to conduct attacks via query_string parameter

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# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: mdksa_2009_266.nasl 6587 2017-07-07 06:35:35Z cfischer $
# Description: Auto-generated from advisory MDVSA-2009:266 (awstats)
#
# Authors:
# Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
# or at your option, GNU General Public License version 3,
# as published by the Free Software Foundation
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
#

include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "A vulnerability has been found and corrected in awstats:

awstats.pl in AWStats 6.8 and earlier does not properly remove quote
characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site
scripting (XSS) attacks via the query_string parameter. NOTE:
this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-3714
(CVE-2008-5080).

This update fixes this vulnerability.

Affected: Corporate 4.0, Enterprise Server 5.0";
tag_solution = "To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:266";
tag_summary = "The remote host is missing an update to awstats
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:266.";

                                                                                

if(description)
{
 script_id(66022);
 script_version("$Revision: 6587 $");
 script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-07-07 08:35:35 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
 script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-10-19 21:50:22 +0200 (Mon, 19 Oct 2009)");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2008-3714", "CVE-2008-5080");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
 script_name("Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:266 (awstats)");



 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

 script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com");
 script_family("Mandrake Local Security Checks");
 script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
 script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/mandriva_mandrake_linux", "ssh/login/rpms");
 script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
 script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
 script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
 script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
 script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"awstats", rpm:"awstats~6.4~4.2.20060mlcs4", rls:"MNDK_4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"awstats", rpm:"awstats~6.8~1.1mdvmes5", rls:"MNDK_mes5")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}

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07 Jul 2017 00:00Current
0.6Low risk
Vulners AI Score0.6
EPSS0.04053
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