Debian DSA-1383-1 : gforge - XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 26930

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that a cross site scripting vulnerability in GForge, a collaborative development tool, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of a logged in user's session.

Solution

Upgrade the gforge package.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.1-31sarge3.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch2.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1383

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 26930

File Name: debian_DSA-1383.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gforge, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3918

CWE: 79

DSA: 1383