GLSA-200508-13 : PEAR XML-RPC, phpxmlrpc: New PHP script injection vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19533

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200508-13 (PEAR XML-RPC, phpxmlrpc: New PHP script injection vulnerability)

Stefan Esser of the Hardened-PHP Project discovered that the PEAR XML-RPC and phpxmlrpc libraries were improperly handling XMLRPC requests and responses with malformed nested tags.
Impact :

A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary PHP script code into eval() statements by sending a specially crafted XML document to web applications making use of these libraries.
Workaround :

There are no known workarounds at this time.

Solution

All PEAR-XML_RPC users should upgrade to the latest available version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.0' All phpxmlrpc users should upgrade to the latest available version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-php/phpxmlrpc-1.2-r1'

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19533

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200508-13.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 8/30/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pear-xml_rpc, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:phpxmlrpc, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2498

GLSA: 200508-13

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