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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 23.04 : Tornado vulnerability (USN-6159-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 177256

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6159-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Tornado incorrectly handled certain redirect. An remote attacker could possibly use this issue to redirect a user to an arbitrary web site and conduct a phishing attack by having user access a specially crafted URL.

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 python-tornado and / or python3-tornado packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6159-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 177256

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6159-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28370

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-tornado, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-tornado

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28370

USN: 6159-1