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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : SquirrelMail vulnerability (USN-4669-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 144066

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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-4669-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SquirrelMail allows remote attackers to use malicious script content from HTML e-mail to execute code and/or provoke a denial of service.

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 squirrelmail package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4669-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 144066

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4669-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/10/2020

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: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12970

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12970

USN: 4669-1