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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Redmine vulnerabilities (USN-4200-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131315

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4200-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Redmine incorrectly handle certain inputs that could cause textile formatting errors. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a XSS attack. (CVE-2019-17427)

 It was discovered that an SQL injection could allow users to access protected information via a crafted object query. (CVE-2019-18890)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4200-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 131315

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4200-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/26/2019

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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-2019-17427

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18890

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:redmine-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:redmine, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:redmine-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:redmine-mysql

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17427, CVE-2019-18890

USN: 4200-1