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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS : jQuery UI vulnerabilities (USN-6419-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 182583

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6419-1 advisory.

 Hong Phat Ly discovered that jQuery UI did not properly manage parameters from untrusted sources, which could lead to arbitrary web script or HTML code injection. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-7103)

 Esben Sparre Andreasen discovered that jQuery UI did not properly handle values from untrusted sources in the Datepicker widget. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack and execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-41182, CVE-2021-41183)

 It was discovered that jQuery UI did not properly validate values from untrusted sources. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-41184)

 It was discovered that the jQuery UI checkboxradio widget did not properly decode certain values from HTML entities. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack and cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2022-31160)

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 libjs-jquery-ui and / or node-jquery-ui packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6419-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 182583

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6419-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2023

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: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41184

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-31160

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:node-jquery-ui, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjs-jquery-ui, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-: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: 10/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7103, CVE-2021-41182, CVE-2021-41183, CVE-2021-41184, CVE-2022-31160

USN: 6419-1