Debian DSA-5181-1 : request-tracker4 - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163225

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5181 advisory.

- Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) before 4.4.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3 allows XSS via a crafted content type for an attachment. (CVE-2022-25802)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the request-tracker4 packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.4+dfsg-2+deb11u2.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?00dbba23

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5181

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-25802

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/request-tracker4

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/request-tracker4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 163225

File Name: debian_DSA-5181.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/15/2022

Updated: 12/8/2022

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: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25802

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:request-tracker4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt4-apache2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt4-clients, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt4-db-mysql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt4-db-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt4-db-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt4-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt4-fcgi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt4-standalone, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-25802