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FreeBSD : wget -- cookie injection vulnerability (7b5a8e3b-52cc-11e8-8c7a-9c5c8e75236a)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 109663

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Synopsis

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

Description

Harry Sintonen of F-Secure Corporation reports :

GNU Wget is susceptible to a malicious web server injecting arbitrary cookies to the cookie jar file.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://sintonen.fi/advisories/gnu-wget-cookie-injection.txt

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228071

http://www.nessus.org/u?fcb0053d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 109663

File Name: freebsd_pkg_7b5a8e3b52cc11e88c7a9c5c8e75236a.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 5/10/2018

Updated: 10/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0494

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:wget, 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: 5/8/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0494