Debian DSA-1822-1 : mahara - insufficient input sanitization

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39495

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 several cross-site scripting attacks, which allow an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML or script code and steal potential sensitive data from other users.

The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara.

Solution

Upgrade the mahara packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny3.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1822

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39495

File Name: debian_DSA-1822.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/24/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

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: 6/23/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2170, CVE-2009-2171

CWE: 264, 79

DSA: 1822