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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : moin vulnerabilities (USN-925-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 45475

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when processing Despam actions, resulting in cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. If a privileged wiki user were tricked into performing the Despam action on a page with a crafted title, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute JavaScript code.
(CVE-2010-0828)

It was discovered that the TextCha protection in MoinMoin could be bypassed by submitting a crafted form request. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.10. (CVE-2010-1238).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected moinmoin-common, python-moinmoin and / or python2.4-moinmoin packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/925-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 45475

File Name: ubuntu_USN-925-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/9/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-moinmoin, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:moinmoin-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-moinmoin, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0828, CVE-2010-1238

BID: 39110

USN: 925-1