Debian DSA-2423-1 : movabletype-opensource - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 58198

Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Movable Type, a blogging system :

Under certain circumstances, a user who has 'Create Entries' or'Manage Blog' permissions may be able to read known files on the local file system.

The file management system contains shell command injection vulnerabilities, the most serious of which may lead to arbitrary OS command execution by a user who has a permission to sign-in to the admin script and also has a permission to upload files.

Session hijack and cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities exist in the commenting and the community script. A remote attacker could hijack the user session or could execute arbitrary script code on victim's browser under the certain circumstances.

Templates which do not escape variable properly and mt-wizard.cgi contain cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

Solution

Upgrade the movabletype-opensource packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.8+dfsg-0+squeeze2.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631437

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661064

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/movabletype-opensource

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2423

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58198

File Name: debian_DSA-2423.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/5/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:movabletype-opensource, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-5084, CVE-2011-5085, CVE-2012-0317, CVE-2012-0318, CVE-2012-0319, CVE-2012-0320, CVE-2012-1262, CVE-2012-1497

BID: 52138

DSA: 2423