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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 24.10 : SPIP vulnerabilities (USN-7318-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 218738

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 24.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7318-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that svg-sanitizer, vendored in SPIP, did not properly sanitize SVG/XML content. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross site scripting. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.10. (CVE-2022-23638)

 It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross site scripting. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-28959)

 It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform PHP injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-28960)

 It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-28961)

 It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2022-37155)

 It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-24258)

 It was discovered that SPIP did not properly handle serialization under certain circumstances. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-27372)

 It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-8517)

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 spip package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7318-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 218738

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7318-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 3/4/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28961

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8517

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:spip

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: 3/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23638, CVE-2022-28959, CVE-2022-28960, CVE-2022-28961, CVE-2022-37155, CVE-2023-24258, CVE-2023-27372, CVE-2024-8517

USN: 7318-1