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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : cups, cupsys vulnerability (USN-856-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42466

Synopsis

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

Description

Aaron Sigel discovered that the CUPS web interface incorrectly protected against cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. If an authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while logged into CUPS, a remote attacker could modify the CUPS configuration and possibly steal confidential data.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/856-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42466

File Name: ubuntu_USN-856-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsdriver1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupscgi1-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-bsd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsmime1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsys2-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsmime1-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcups2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsys2-gnutls10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsppdc1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsdriver1-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-ppdc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcups2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsddk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsimage2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-bsd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupscgi1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsppdc1-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsys2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsimage2-dev

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: 11/10/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2820

BID: 36958

CWE: 79

USN: 856-1