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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Apache Commons Collections vulnerability (USN-6936-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 204940

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6936-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Apache Commons Collections allowed serialization support for unsafe classes by default. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected libcommons-collections3-java package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6936-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 204940

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6936-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/1/2024

Updated: 8/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-4852

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcommons-collections3-java

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2015

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/3/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Oracle Weblogic Server Deserialization RCE - Raw Object)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4852

USN: 6936-1