The fulltext search component in phpBB before 3.2.6 allows Denial of Service.

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

  - The fulltext search component in phpBB before 3.2.6 allows Denial of Service. (CVE-2019-9826)

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 fulltext search component in phpBB before 3.2.6 allows Denial of Service. (CVE-2019-9826)

Colin Snover discovered a denial of service vulnerability in phpBB3, a full-featured web forum. Previous versions allowed users to run searches that might result in long execution times and load on larger boards when using the fulltext native search engine. To combat this, further restrictions were introduced on search queries.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.12-5+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpbb3 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
262877	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-9826	Nessus	Misc.	high
433925	SCA: security update for phpbb/phpbb (GHSA-6pgr-x867-h7jx)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
433925	SCA: security update for phpbb/phpbb (GHSA-6pgr-x867-h7jx)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
124597	Debian DLA-1775-1 : phpbb3 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2019-9826

high

Tenable Plugins

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high

high

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