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GLSA-202210-07 : Deluge: Cross-Site Scripting

medium Nessus Plugin ID 166159

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202210-07 (Deluge: Cross-Site Scripting)

 - The Deluge Web-UI is vulnerable to XSS through a crafted torrent file. The the data from torrent files is not properly sanitised as it's interpreted directly as HTML. Someone who supplies the user with a malicious torrent file can execute arbitrary Javascript code in the context of the user's browser session.
 (CVE-2021-3427)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All Deluge users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=net-p2p/deluge-2.1.1

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-07

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866842

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 166159

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202210-07.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 10/16/2022

Updated: 10/9/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3427

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:gentoo:linux:deluge, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3427