A serialization vulnerability in logback receiver component part of logback version 1.4.11 allows an attacker to mount a Denial-Of-Service attack by sending poisoned data.

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The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7616-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that logback could read malicious configuration files from LDAP servers. An attacker     with the required permissions could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-42550)

    It was discovered that logback contained a serialization vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-6378)

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

  - A serialization vulnerability in logback receiver component part of logback version 1.4.11 allows an     attacker to mount a Denial-Of-Service attack by sending poisoned data. (CVE-2023-6378)

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:

  - A serialization vulnerability in logback receiver component part of logback version 1.4.11 allows an
    attacker to mount a Denial-Of-Service attack by sending poisoned data. (CVE-2023-6378)

The version of Atlassian Confluence Server running on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CONFSERVER-94110 advisory.

  - A serialization vulnerability in logback receiver component part of logback version 1.4.11 allows an     attacker to mount a Denial-Of-Service attack by sending poisoned data. The vulnerability was introduced     in versions 6.0.1 of Confluence Data Center and Server.(CVE-2023-6378)

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
241352	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : logback vulnerabilities (USN-7616-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
226708	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-6378	Nessus	Misc.	high
419426	SCA: security update for ch.qos.logback:logback-classic, ch.qos.logback:logback-core (GHSA-vmq6-5m68-f53m)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
419426	SCA: security update for ch.qos.logback:logback-classic, ch.qos.logback:logback-core (GHSA-vmq6-5m68-f53m)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
191088	Atlassian Confluence 6.0.1 < 7.19.18 / 7.20.x < 8.5.5 / 8.6.x < 8.7.2 / 8.8.0 (CONFSERVER-94110)	Nessus	CGI abuses	high

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