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Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : PostfixAdmin vulnerabilities (USN-6550-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186757

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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 a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6550-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Smarty, that is integrated in the PostfixAdmin code, was not properly sanitizing user input when generating templates. An attacker could, through PHP injection, possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-29221)

 It was discovered that Moment.js, that is integrated in the PostfixAdmin code, was using an inefficient parsing algorithm when processing date strings in the RFC 2822 standard. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-31129)

 It was discovered that Smarty, that is integrated in the PostfixAdmin code, was not properly escaping JavaScript code. An attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct cross-site scripting attacks (XSS).
 (CVE-2023-28447)

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 postfixadmin package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6550-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 186757

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6550-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2023

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29221

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postfixadmin, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:esm, 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: 12/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29221, CVE-2022-31129, CVE-2023-28447

USN: 6550-1