Radicale before 1.1.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0rc2 is prone to timing oracles and simple brute-force attacks when using the htpasswd authentication method.

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

  - Radicale before 1.1.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0rc2 is prone to timing oracles and simple brute-force attacks     when using the htpasswd authentication method. (CVE-2017-8342)

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:

  - Radicale before 1.1.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0rc2 is prone to timing oracles and simple brute-force attacks
    when using the htpasswd authentication method. (CVE-2017-8342)

Radicale, a simple calendar and addressbook server - daemon, is prone to timing oracles and simple brute-force attacks when using the htpasswd authentication method.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.9-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your radicale 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.

Security fix for CVE-2017-8342

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Radicale before 1.1.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0rc2 is prone to timing oracles and simple brute-force attacks when using the htpasswd authentication method.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.7-1.1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your radicale 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
255167	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-8342	Nessus	Misc.	high
434112	SCA: security update for Radicale (GHSA-rpv4-63g3-9x23)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
434112	SCA: security update for Radicale (GHSA-rpv4-63g3-9x23)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
135979	Debian DLA-2187-1 : radicale security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
101675	Fedora 26 : radicale (2017-863f86e7a9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
100199	Fedora 24 : radicale (2017-cdc7caed36)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
100185	Fedora 25 : radicale (2017-2ab5baea0a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
100069	Debian DLA-934-1 : radicale security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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