Debian DLA-1946-1 : novnc security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 129594

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC in which the remote VNC server could inject arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web page via the messages propagated to the status field, such as the VNC server name.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1:0.4+dfsg+1+20131010+gitf68af8af3d-4+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your novnc 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 novnc, and python-novnc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 129594

File Name: debian_DLA-1946.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/7/2019

Updated: 4/19/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

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-2017-18635

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18635

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