FreeBSD : habari -- XSS Vulnerability (578f6322-c450-11dd-a721-0030843d3802)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35055

Synopsis

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

Description

Secunia reports :

Input passed via the 'habari_username' parameter when logging in is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0607cfe0

http://www.nessus.org/u?f767d7b2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35055

File Name: freebsd_pkg_578f6322c45011dda7210030843d3802.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 12/8/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:habari, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4601

CWE: 79

Secunia: 32311