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

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163924

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.

It was discovered that phpLiteAdmin incorrectly handled certain GET requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/9/2022

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-themes, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:phpliteadmin

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

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