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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Swift vulnerabilities (USN-2704-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 85252

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2704-1 advisory.

 Rajaneesh Singh discovered Swift does not properly enforce metadata limits. An attacker could abuse this issue to store more metadata than allowed by policy. (CVE-2014-7960)

 Clay Gerrard discovered Swift allowed users to delete the latest version of object regardless of object permissions when allow_version is configured. An attacker could use this issue to delete objects.
 (CVE-2015-1856)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-2704-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 85252

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2704-1.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/6/2015

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1856

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7960, CVE-2015-1856

USN: 2704-1