FreeBSD : rt -- Remote DoS, Information disclosure and Session Hijackingvulnerabilities (d08f6002-c588-11e4-8495-6805ca0b3d42)

high Nessus Plugin ID 81685

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Best Practical reports :

RT 3.0.0 and above, if running on Perl 5.14.0 or higher, are vulnerable to a remote denial-of-service via the email gateway; any installation which accepts mail from untrusted sources is vulnerable, regardless of the permissions configuration inside RT. This denial-of-service may encompass both CPU and disk usage, depending on RT's logging configuration. This vulnerability is assigned CVE-2014-9472.

RT 3.8.8 and above are vulnerable to an information disclosure attack which may reveal RSS feeds URLs, and thus ticket data; this vulnerability is assigned CVE-2015-1165. RSS feed URLs can also be leveraged to perform session hijacking, allowing a user with the URL to log in as the user that created the feed; this vulnerability is assigned CVE-2015-1464.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7e631423

http://www.nessus.org/u?a1a0b31b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 81685

File Name: freebsd_pkg_d08f6002c58811e484956805ca0b3d42.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 3/9/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:rt40, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:rt42, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9472, CVE-2015-1165, CVE-2015-1464