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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Apache Commons Net vulnerability (USN-6037-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174751

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6037-1 advisory.

 ZeddYu Lu discovered that the FTP client from Apache Commons Net trusted the host from PASV responses by default. A remote attacker with a malicious FTP server could redirect the client to another server, which could possibly result in leaked information about services running on the private network of the client.

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 libcommons-net-java package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6037-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174751

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6037-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/25/2023

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-37533

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcommons-net-java, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-37533

USN: 6037-1