Debian DSA-169-1 : htcheck - XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15006

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a problem in ht://Check's PHP interface.
The PHP interface displays information unchecked which was gathered from crawled external web servers. This could lead into a cross site scripting attack if somebody has control over the server responses of a remote web server which is crawled by ht://Check.

Solution

Upgrade the htcheck package immediately.

This problem has been fixed in version 1.1-1.1 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 1.1-1.2 for the unstable release (sid). The old stable release (potato) does not contain the htcheck package.

See Also

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103184269605160

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-169

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15006

File Name: debian_DSA-169.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:htcheck, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/12/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1195

DSA: 169