Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Shibboleth vulnerability (USN-4925-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 148953

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4925-1 advisory.

Toni Huttunen and Fraktal Oy discovered that the Shibboleth Service provider allowed content injection due to allowing attacker-controlled parameters in error or other status pages. An attacker could use this to inject malicious content.

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 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4925-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 148953

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4925-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2021

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: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28963

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:shibboleth-sp2-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-shib, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libshibsp-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libshibsp-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-shib2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libshibsp8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:shibboleth-sp2-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:shibboleth-sp-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:shibboleth-sp-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28963

USN: 4925-1