The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5684 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5684-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                           Alberto Garcia     May 09, 2024                          https://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : webkit2gtk     CVE ID         : CVE-2023-42843 CVE-2023-42950 CVE-2023-42956 CVE-2024-23252                      CVE-2024-23254 CVE-2024-23263 CVE-2024-23280 CVE-2024-23284

    The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK     web engine:

    CVE-2023-42843

        Kacper Kwapisz discovered that visiting a malicious website may         lead to address bar spoofing.

    CVE-2023-42950

        Nan Wang and Rushikesh Nandedkar discovered that processing         maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code         execution.

    CVE-2023-42956

        SungKwon Lee discovered that processing web content may lead to a         denial-of-service.

    CVE-2024-23252

        anbu1024 discovered that processing web content may lead to a         denial-of-service.

    CVE-2024-23254

        James Lee discovered that a malicious website may exfiltrate audio         data cross-origin.

    CVE-2024-23263

        Johan Carlsson discovered that processing maliciously crafted web         content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced.

    CVE-2024-23280

        An anonymous researcher discovered that a maliciously crafted         webpage may be able to fingerprint the user.

    CVE-2024-23284

        Georg Felber and Marco Squarcina discovered that processing         maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content Security         Policy from being enforced.

    For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed     in version 2.44.1-1~deb11u1.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in     version 2.44.1-1~deb12u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.

    For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/webkit2gtk

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

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Debian dsa-5684 : gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 195200

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.1 Jan 24, 2025, 9:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202501242125
Version 1.0 May 9, 2024, 2:00 PM New Plugin Feed: 202405091400