The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6757-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS variable. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and     Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-4900)

    It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain cookies. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cookie by pass. (CVE-2024-2756)

    It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled some passwords. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause an account takeover attack. (CVE-2024-3096)

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.

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : PHP vulnerabilities (USN-6757-1)

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Version 1.1 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
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