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FreeBSD : ikiwiki -- authentication bypass vulnerability (7b35a77a-0151-11e7-ae1b-002590263bf5)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 97546

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Synopsis

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

Description

ikiwiki reports :

The ikiwiki maintainers discovered further flaws similar to CVE-2016-9646 in the passwordauth plugin's use of CGI::FormBuilder, with a more serious impact :

An attacker who can log in to a site with a password can log in as a different and potentially more privileged user.

An attacker who can create a new account can set arbitrary fields in the user database for that account

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://ikiwiki.info/security/#index48h2

http://www.nessus.org/u?eeab34e6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 97546

File Name: freebsd_pkg_7b35a77a015111e7ae1b002590263bf5.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Published: 3/6/2017

Updated: 12/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-0356

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-0356