Debian DSA-1924-1 : mahara - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44789

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Synopsis

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

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2009-3298 Ruslan Kabalin discovered a issue with resetting passwords, which could lead to a privilege escalation of an institutional administrator account.

- CVE-2009-3299 Sven Vetsch discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the resume fields.

Solution

Upgrade the mahara packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny4.

The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3298

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3299

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1924

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44789

File Name: debian_DSA-1924.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

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: 10/31/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3298, CVE-2009-3299

CWE: 264, 79

DSA: 1924