Debian DLA-1441-1 : sympa security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111313

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in Sympa, a modern mailing list manager, that allows write access to files on the server filesystem.
This flaw allows to create or modify any file writable by the Sympa user, located on the server filesystem, using the function of Sympa web interface template file saving.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 6.1.23~dfsg-2+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your sympa packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected sympa package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 111313

File Name: debian_DLA-1441.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/25/2018

Updated: 9/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000550

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sympa

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000550

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