Detections
Analytics
Fedora 9 : drupal-6.6-1.fc9 (2008-9213)
high Nessus Plugin ID 34672
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
Update to 6.6, security fixes: SA-2008-067 ( http://drupal.org/node/324824 ) ------------DESCRIPTION------------ Multiple vulnerabilities and weaknesses were discovered in Drupal.------------FILE INCLUSION------------ On a server configured for IP-based virtual hosts, Drupal may be caused to include and execute specifically named files outside of its root directory. This bug affects both Drupal 5 and Drupal 6. ------------CROSS SITE SCRIPTING------------ The title of book pages is not always properly escaped, enabling users with the 'create book content' permission or the permission to edit any node in the book hierarchy to insert arbitrary HTML and script code into pages. Such a Cross site scripting [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting ] attack may lead to the attacker gaining administrator access. This bug affects Drupal 6. Remember to log in to your site as the admin user before upgrading this package. After upgrading the package, browse to http://host/drupal/update.php to run the upgrade script.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected drupal package.See Also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 34672
File Name: fedora_2008-9213.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 10/31/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:drupal, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-6170, CVE-2008-6171