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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Swift vulnerability (USN-2256-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76251

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2256-1 advisory.

 John Dickinson discovered that Swift did not properly quote the WWW-Authenticate header value. If a user were tricked into navigating to a malicious Swift URL, an attacker could conduct cross-site scripting attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2256-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76251

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2256-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2014

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: 3.0

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3497

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-object, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-container, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-proxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-account, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-object-expirer, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-swift

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3497

BID: 68116

USN: 2256-1