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Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : jQuery UI vulnerability (USN-5181-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183120

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5181-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that jQuery UI did not properly validate the values from untrusted sources. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue affected only Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.4 ESM. (CVE-2021-41184)

 It was discovered that jQuery UI checkboxradio widget did not properly decode certain values from HTML entities. An attacker could possibly use this issue to generate a cross-site scripting(XSS) attack, resulting in a crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. (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-5181-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183120

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5181-1.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: 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:22.04:-:esm, 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: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: 9/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41184, CVE-2022-31160

USN: 5181-1