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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : dom4j (EulerOS-SA-2019-2405)

high Nessus Plugin ID 131897

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the dom4j package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - dom4j version prior to version 2.1.1 contains a CWE-91:
 XML Injection vulnerability in Class: Element. Methods:
 addElement, addAttribute that can result in an attacker tampering with XML documents through XML injection.
 This attack appear to be exploitable via an attacker specifying attributes or elements in the XML document.
 This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.1.1 or later.(CVE-2018-1000632)

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

Solution

Update the affected dom4j package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4ce1c471

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 131897

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2405.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 12/10/2019

Updated: 4/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000632

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:huawei:euleros:dom4j, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000632