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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : mod-wsgi vulnerability (USN-5551-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 163860

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5551-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that mod-wsgi did not correctly remove the X-Client-IP header when processing requests from untrusted proxies. A remote attacker could use this issue to pass the header to WSGI applications, contrary to expectations.

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 libapache2-mod-wsgi and / or libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5551-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 163860

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5551-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/5/2022

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2255

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-wsgi, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

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: 8/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/4/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2255

USN: 5551-1