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Debian DLA-1375-1 : wget security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 109735

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Harry Sintonen have discovered a cookie injection vulnerability in wget caused by insufficient input validation, enabling an external attacker to inject arbitrary cookie values cookie jar file, adding new or replacing existing cookie values.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.13.4-3+deb7u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your wget 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.

Solution

Upgrade the affected wget package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00006.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/wget

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 109735

File Name: debian_DLA-1375.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/14/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wget, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0494