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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : phpLiteAdmin vulnerability (USN-5552-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163924

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5552-1 advisory.

 - phpLiteAdmin through 1.9.8.2 allows XSS via the index.php newRows parameter (aka num or number).
 (CVE-2021-46709)

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

Solution

Update the affected phpliteadmin and / or phpliteadmin-themes packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5552-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 163924

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5552-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/9/2022

Updated: 7/10/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

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 Score Source: CVE-2021-46709

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:phpliteadmin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:phpliteadmin-themes

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-46709

USN: 5552-1