The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5308 advisory.

    The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine: CVE-2022-42852 hazbinhotel     discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may result in the disclosure of process memory.
    CVE-2022-42856 Clement Lecigne discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to     arbitrary code execution. CVE-2022-42867 Maddie Stone discovered that processing maliciously crafted web     content may lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2022-46692 KirtiKumar Anandrao Ramchandani discovered     that processing maliciously crafted web content may bypass Same Origin Policy. CVE-2022-46698 Dohyun Lee     and Ryan Shin discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user     information. CVE-2022-46699 Samuel Gross discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may     lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2022-46700 Samuel Gross discovered that processing maliciously     crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. For the stable distribution (bullseye), these     problems have been fixed in version 2.38.3-1~deb11u1. We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk     packages. For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/webkit2gtk

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

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

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Debian DSA-5308-1 : webkit2gtk - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 169437

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.1 Jan 24, 2025, 9:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202501242125
Version 1.0 Dec 31, 2022, 9:52 PM New Plugin Feed: 202212312152