ikiwiki before 3.20170111.1 and 3.2018x and 3.2019x before 3.20190228 allows SSRF via the aggregate plugin. The impact also includes reading local files via file: URIs.

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

  - ikiwiki before 3.20170111.1 and 3.2018x and 3.2019x before 3.20190228 allows SSRF via the aggregate     plugin. The impact also includes reading local files via file: URIs. (CVE-2019-9187)

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

The ikiwiki maintainers discovered that the aggregate plugin did not use LWPx::ParanoidAgent. On sites where the aggregate plugin is enabled, authorized wiki editors could tell ikiwiki to fetch potentially undesired URIs even if LWPx::ParanoidAgent was installed :

local files via file: URIs other URI schemes that might be misused by attackers, such as gopher: hosts that resolve to loopback IP addresses (127.x.x.x) hosts that resolve to RFC 1918 IP addresses (192.168.x.x etc.)

This could be used by an attacker to publish information that should not have been accessible, cause denial of service by requesting 'tarpit' URIs that are slow to respond, or cause undesired side-effects if local web servers implement 'unsafe' GET requests.
(CVE-2019-9187)

Additionally, if liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl is not installed, the blogspam, openid and pinger plugins would fall back to LWP, which is susceptible to similar attacks. This is unlikely to be a practical problem for the blogspam plugin because the URL it requests is under the control of the wiki administrator, but the openid plugin can request URLs controlled by unauthenticated remote users, and the pinger plugin can request URLs controlled by authorized wiki editors.

This is addressed in ikiwiki 3.20190228 as follows, with the same fixes backported to Debian 9 in version 3.20170111.1 :

  - URI schemes other than http: and https: are not     accepted, preventing access to file:, gopher:, etc.

  - If a proxy is configured in the ikiwiki setup file, it     is used for all outgoing http: and https: requests. In     this case the proxy is responsible for blocking any     requests that are undesired, including loopback or RFC     1918 addresses.

  - If a proxy is not configured, and     liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl is installed, it will be     used. This prevents loopback and RFC 1918 IP addresses,     and sets a timeout to avoid denial of service via     'tarpit' URIs.

  - Otherwise, the ordinary LWP user-agent will be used.
    This allows requests to loopback and RFC 1918 IP     addresses, and has less robust timeout behaviour. We are     not treating this as a vulnerability: if this behaviour     is not acceptable for your site, please make sure to     install LWPx::ParanoidAgent or disable the affected     plugins.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 3.20141016.4+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ikiwiki packages. In addition it is also recommended that you have liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl installed, which listed in the recommends field of ikiwiki.

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.

Joey Hess discovered that the aggregate plugin of the Ikiwiki wiki compiler was susceptible to server-side request forgery, resulting in information disclosure or denial of service.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
254371	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-9187	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
122928	Debian DLA-1716-1 : ikiwiki security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
122518	Debian DSA-4399-1 : ikiwiki - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high

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