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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : ZoneMinder vulnerabilities (USN-5889-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 171952

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5889-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing URL parameters for certain views. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-6777)

 It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing stored user input later printed to the user in certain views. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-6990, CVE-2019-6992)

 It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly limiting data size and not properly performing bound checks when processing username and password data, which could lead to a stack buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication, cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-6991)

 It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly defining and filtering data that was appended to the webroot URL of a view. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-7325, CVE-2019-7329)

 It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing stored user input later printed to the user in certain views. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-7326)

 It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing URL parameters for certain views. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-7327, CVE-2019-7328, CVE-2019-7330, CVE-2019-7332)

 It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing user input in the monitor editing view. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-7331)

 It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing data related to file paths in a system. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-29806)

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 zoneminder package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5889-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 171952

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5889-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/28/2023

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29806

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:zoneminder, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:esm

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: 2/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2019

Exploitable With

Metasploit (ZoneMinder Language Settings Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6777, CVE-2019-6990, CVE-2019-6991, CVE-2019-6992, CVE-2019-7325, CVE-2019-7326, CVE-2019-7327, CVE-2019-7328, CVE-2019-7329, CVE-2019-7330, CVE-2019-7331, CVE-2019-7332, CVE-2022-29806

USN: 5889-1