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FreeBSD : ikiwiki -- XSS vulnerability (0297b260-2b3b-11e6-ae88-002590263bf5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 91475

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Synopsis

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

Description

Mitre reports :

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cgierror function in CGI.pm in ikiwiki before 3.20160506 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors involving an error message.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209593

http://www.nessus.org/u?349506a5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 91475

File Name: freebsd_pkg_0297b2602b3b11e6ae88002590263bf5.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Published: 6/6/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ikiwiki, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4561