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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Loofah vulnerability (USN-4498-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140600

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4498-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Loofah does not properly sanitize JavaScript in

 sanitized output. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform

 XSS attacks. (CVE-2019-15587)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected ruby-loofah package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4498-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140600

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4498-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2020

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: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15587

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby-loofah, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15587

USN: 4498-1