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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Mutt vulnerabilities (USN-4401-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137745

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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 / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4401-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to enable MITM attacks. (CVE-2020-14093)

 It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to proceeds with a connection even if the user rejects an expired intermediate certificate.
 (CVE-2020-14154)

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 mutt and / or mutt-patched packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4401-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137745

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4401-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/23/2020

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14154

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14093

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mutt-patched, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mutt

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14093, CVE-2020-14154

USN: 4401-1