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Ubuntu 19.10 : Apache Ant vulnerability (USN-4380-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137046

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that Apache Ant created temporary files with insecure permissions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to read sensitive information leaked into /tmp, or potentially inject malicious code into a project that is built with Apache Ant.

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Solution

Update the affected ant, ant-doc and / or ant-optional packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4380-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137046

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4380-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/2/2020

Updated: 5/11/2023

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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1945

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ant-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ant-optional, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ant, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1945

USN: 4380-1