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GLSA-201701-25 : phpBB: Multiple vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 96419

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-25 (phpBB: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpBB. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker may be able to change settings, inject arbitrary web script or HTML, or conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

Gentoo Security support has been discontinued due to phpBB being dropped to unstable. As such, we recommend that users unmerge phpBB:
 # emerge --unmerge 'www-apps/phpBB' NOTE: Users could alternatively upgrade to “>=www-apps/phpBB-3.1.10”, however, these packages are not currently marked stable.

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-25

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 96419

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201701-25.nasl

Version: 3.3

Type: local

Published: 1/12/2017

Updated: 1/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1432

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:phpbb, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1431, CVE-2015-1432

GLSA: 201701-25