SPIP before 4.2.1 allows Remote Code Execution via form values in the public area because serialization is mishandled. The fixed versions are 3.2.18, 4.0.10, 4.1.8, and 4.2.1.

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

  - SPIP before 4.2.1 allows Remote Code Execution via form values in the public area because serialization is     mishandled. The fixed versions are 3.2.18, 4.0.10, 4.1.8, and 4.2.1. (CVE-2023-27372)

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

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 24.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7318-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that svg-sanitizer, vendored in SPIP, did not properly sanitize SVG/XML content. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross site scripting. This issue only affected Ubuntu     24.10. (CVE-2022-23638)

    It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use     this issue to perform cross site scripting. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-28959)

    It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use     this issue to perform PHP injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-28960)

    It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use     this issue to perform SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-28961)

    It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A remote authenticated attacker     could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-37155)

    It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use     this issue to perform SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04     LTS. (CVE-2023-24258)

    It was discovered that SPIP did not properly handle serialization under certain circumstances. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04     LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-27372)

    It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use     this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-8517)

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

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

The SPIP CMS is vulnerable to an unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via form values in the public area because serialization is mishandled.

The remote Debian 11 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5367 advisory.

  - SPIP before 4.2.1 allows Remote Code Execution via form values in the public area because serialization is     mishandled. The fixed versions are 3.2.18, 4.0.10, 4.1.8, and 4.2.1. (CVE-2023-27372)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256963	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-27372	Nessus	Misc.	critical
218738	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 24.10 : SPIP vulnerabilities (USN-7318-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
113839	SPIP CMS < 3.2.18 / 4.0.x < 4.0.10 / 4.1.x < 4.1.8 / 4.2.x < 4.2.1 Object Injection RCE	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	critical
172052	Debian DSA-5367-1 : spip - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical

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