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Debian DLA-812-1 : ikiwiki security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 96911

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been found in ikiwiki, a wiki compiler :

CVE-2016-9646

Commit metadata forgery

CVE-2016-10026

Authorization bypass when reverting changes

CVE-2017-0356

Authentication bypass via repeated parameters

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.20120629.2+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your ikiwiki packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected ikiwiki package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/01/msg00049.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/ikiwiki

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 96911

File Name: debian_DLA-812.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ikiwiki, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10026, CVE-2016-9646, CVE-2017-0356