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Debian DSA-4612-1 : prosody-modules - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 133415

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that the LDAP authentication modules for the Prosody Jabber/XMPP server incorrectly validated the XMPP address when checking whether a user has admin access.

Solution

Upgrade the prosody-modules packages.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0~hg20170123.3ed504b944e5+dfsg-1+deb9u1.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0~hg20190203.b54e98d5c4a1+dfsg-1+deb10u1.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?98030852

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 133415

File Name: debian_DSA-4612.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/3/2020

Updated: 2/6/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8086

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:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:prosody-modules, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8086

DSA: 4612