The clientIp function in CakePHP 3.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to spoof their IP via the CLIENT-IP HTTP header.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8978-1 advisory.

    Dawid Golunski discovered that CakePHP incorrectly trusted the CLIENT-IP HTTP header when determining the     client IP address. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to spoof their IP address.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The clientIp function in CakePHP 3.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to spoof their IP via the     CLIENT-IP HTTP header. (CVE-2016-4793)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - The clientIp function in CakePHP 3.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to spoof their IP via the
    CLIENT-IP HTTP header. (CVE-2016-4793)

Dawid Golunski from legalhackers.com discovered that cakephp, an application development framework for PHP, contains a vulnerability that allows attackers to spoof the source IP address. It would allow them to bypass access control lists, or the injection of malicious data which, if treated as sanitized by an unaware CakePHP-based application, can lead to other vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, XSS or command injection.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.15-1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your cakephp packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
375865	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : CakePHP vulnerability (USN-8978-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
254976	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-4793	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
416249	SCA: security update for cakephp/cakephp (GHSA-j8p3-8m69-2hqq)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
416249	SCA: security update for cakephp/cakephp (GHSA-j8p3-8m69-2hqq)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
97393	Debian DLA-835-1 : cakephp security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high

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CVE-2016-4793

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