Debian DSA-1736-1 : mahara - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35902

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks, which allows the injection of arbitrary Java or HTML code.

The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara.

Solution

Upgrade the mahara package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1736

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35902

File Name: debian_DSA-1736.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

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:mahara, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0660

CWE: 79

DSA: 1736