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Debian DSA-2540-1 : mahara - XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62011

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Synopsis

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

Description

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that Mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder, contains multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities due to missing sanitization and insufficient encoding of user-supplied data.

Solution

Upgrade the mahara packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.6-2+squeeze5.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/mahara

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2540

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62011

File Name: debian_DSA-2540.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/10/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/7/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2237

BID: 54776

DSA: 2540