Debian DLA-897-1 : qbittorrent security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 99402

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2017-6503 WebUI in qBittorrent before 3.3.11 did not escape many values, which could potentially lead to XSS.

CVE-2017-6504

WebUI in qBittorrent before 3.3.11 did not set the X-Frame-Options header, which could potentially lead to clickjacking.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.9.8-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your qbittorrent 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 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/04/msg00015.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 99402

File Name: debian_DLA-897.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/17/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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 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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qbittorrent, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qbittorrent-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qbittorrent-nox, 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: 4/16/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6503, CVE-2017-6504