Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : awstats vulnerabilities (USN-360-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27940

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

awstats did not fully sanitize input, which was passed directly to the user's browser, allowing for an XSS attack. If a user was tricked into following a specially crafted awstats URL, the user's authentication information could be exposed for the domain where awstats was hosted.
(CVE-2006-3681)

awstats could display its installation path under certain conditions.
However, this might only become a concern if awstats is installed into an user's home directory. (CVE-2006-3682).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected awstats package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/360-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27940

File Name: ubuntu_USN-360-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:awstats, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3681, CVE-2006-3682

USN: 360-1