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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Subversion vulnerabilities (USN-5372-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 159689

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5372-1 advisory.

 Evgeny Kotkov discovered that Subversion servers did not properly follow path-based authorization rules in certain cases. An attacker could potentially use this issue to retrieve information about private paths.
 (CVE-2021-28544)

 Thomas Weischuh discovered that Subversion servers did not properly handle memory in certain configurations. A remote attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. (CVE-2022-24070)

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 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5372-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 159689

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5372-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/12/2022

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: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28544

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby-svn, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsvn-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:subversion, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsvn-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-svn, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsvn1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:subversion-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsvn-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-subversion

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: 4/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28544, CVE-2022-24070

USN: 5372-1