Debian DLA-3212-1 : twisted - LTS security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 168233

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3212 advisory.

- Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications. Started with version 0.9.4, when the host header does not match a configured host `twisted.web.vhost.NameVirtualHost` will return a `NoResource` resource which renders the Host header unescaped into the 404 response allowing HTML and script injection.
In practice this should be very difficult to exploit as being able to modify the Host header of a normal HTTP request implies that one is already in a privileged position. This issue was fixed in version 22.10.0rc1. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2022-39348)

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 twisted packages.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 18.9.0-3+deb10u2.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/twisted

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-3212

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-39348

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/twisted

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 168233

File Name: debian_DLA-3212.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/28/2022

Updated: 9/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-39348

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted-bin-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted-conch, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted-core, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted-mail, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted-names, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted-news, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted-runner, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted-runner-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted-web, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-twisted-words, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-twisted, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-twisted-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-twisted-bin-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:twisted-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-39348