Debian DSA-2067-1 : mahara - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 47589

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder. The following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project ids identify them :

- CVE-2010-1667 Multiple pages performed insufficient input sanitising, making them vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.

- CVE-2010-1668 Multiple forms lacked protection against cross-site request forgery attacks, therefore making them vulnerable.

- CVE-2010-1670 Gregor Anzelj discovered that it was possible to accidentally configure an installation of mahara that allows access to another user's account without a password.

- CVE-2010-2479 Certain Internet Explorer-specific cross-site scripting vulnerabilities were discovered in HTML Purifier, of which a copy is included in the mahara package.

Solution

Upgrade the mahara packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), the problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny6.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 47589

File Name: debian_DSA-2067.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/5/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mahara, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1667, CVE-2010-1668, CVE-2010-1670, CVE-2010-2479

BID: 41259

DSA: 2067

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