Debian DSA-2651-1 : smokeping - XSS vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65635

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in smokeping, a latency logging and graphing system. Input passed to the 'displaymode'parameter was not properly sanitized. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site.

Solution

Upgrade the smokeping packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.6-5+squeeze1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65635

File Name: debian_DSA-2651.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/21/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:smokeping

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0790

BID: 51584

DSA: 2651

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