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Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : Prosody vulnerability (USN-4834-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 183110

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4834-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Prosody incorrectly validated the virtual host associated with a user session across stream restarts. A remote attacker

 could use this issue to gain unintended access to resources.

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 prosody package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4834-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 183110

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4834-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/16/2023

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10847

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:prosody

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10847

USN: 4834-1