Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CSRF content-type check in Jackrabbit-Webdav in Apache Jackrabbit 2.4.x before 2.4.6, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, 2.10.x before 2.10.4, 2.12.x before 2.12.4, and 2.13.x before 2.13.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that create a resource via an HTTP POST request with a (1) missing or (2) crafted Content-Type header.

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

  - Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CSRF content-type check in Jackrabbit-Webdav in     Apache Jackrabbit 2.4.x before 2.4.6, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, 2.10.x before 2.10.4, 2.12.x     before 2.12.4, and 2.13.x before 2.13.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of     unspecified victims for requests that create a resource via an HTTP POST request with a (1) missing or (2)     crafted Content-Type header. (CVE-2016-6801)

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

Lukas Reschke discovered that Apache Jackrabbit, an implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API, did not correctly check the Content-Type header on HTTP POST requests, enabling Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks by malicious websites.

Lukas Reschke discovered that Apache Jackrabbit, a content repository implementation for Java, was vulnerable to Cross-Site-Request-Forgery in Jackrabbit's webdav module.

The CSRF content-type check for POST requests did not handle missing Content-Type header fields, nor variations in field values with respect to upper/lower case or optional parameters. This could be exploited to create a resource via CSRF.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.3.6-1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your jackrabbit 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	Severity
245922	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-6801	Nessus	Misc.	high
93747	Debian DSA-3679-1 : jackrabbit - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
93569	Debian DLA-629-1 : jackrabbit security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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