Debian DLA-3644-1 : phppgadmin - LTS security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 184274

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3644 advisory.

- phpPgAdmin 7.14.4 and earlier is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data which may lead to remote code execution because user-controlled data is directly passed to the PHP 'unserialize()' function in multiple places. An example is the functionality to manage tables in 'tables.php' where the 'ma[]' POST parameter is deserialized. (CVE-2023-40619)

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 phppgadmin packages.

For Debian 10 Buster, this problem has been fixed in version 5.1+ds-4+deb10u1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2023/dla-3644

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-40619

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 184274

File Name: debian_DLA-3644.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/2/2023

Updated: 11/2/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-40619

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phppgadmin, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-40619