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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : CKEditor vulnerabilities (USN-5340-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 159137

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5340-1 advisory.

 Kyaw Min Thein discovered that CKEditor incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affects Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-9861)

 Micha Bentkowski discovered that CKEditor incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affects Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2020-9281)

 Anton Subbotin discovered that CKEditor incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affects Ubuntu 21.10. (CVE-2021-32808)

 Anton Subbotin discovered that CKEditor incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-32809)

 Or Sahar discovered that CKEditor incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affects Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2021-33829)

 Mika Kulmala discovered that CKEditor incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-37695)

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 ckeditor package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5340-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 159137

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5340-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/22/2022

Updated: 8/29/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33829

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ckeditor

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-9861, CVE-2020-9281, CVE-2021-32808, CVE-2021-32809, CVE-2021-33829, CVE-2021-37695

IAVA: 2021-A-0384-S, 2022-A-0032-S, 2022-A-0035

USN: 5340-1