Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : jinja2 vulnerabilities (USN-4011-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125772

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

USN-4011-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Jinja2. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details :

Olivier Dony discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled str.format. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escape the sandbox.
(CVE-2016-10745)

Brian Welch discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled str.format_map. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escape the sandbox. (CVE-2019-10906).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected python-jinja2 and / or python3-jinja2 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4011-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125772

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4011-2.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/7/2019

Updated: 1/17/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-jinja2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10745, CVE-2019-10906

USN: 4011-2