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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : horizon vulnerabilities (USN-1439-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59033

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Synopsis

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

Description

Matthias Weckbecker discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Horizon via the log viewer refrash mechanism. If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted log message, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents or steal confidential data within the same domain. (CVE-2012-2094)

Thomas Biege discovered a session fixation vulnerability in Horizon.
An attacker could exploit this to potentially allow access to unauthorized information and capabilities. (CVE-2012-2144).

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 python-django-horizon package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1439-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59033

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1439-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/8/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.06

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-django-horizon

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2094, CVE-2012-2144

USN: 1439-1