Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title plexus-utils security update
Informations
Name DSA-4146 First vendor Publication 2018-03-20
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2018-03-20
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Charles Duffy discovered that the Commandline class in the utilities for the Plexus framework performs insufficient quoting of double-encoded strings, which could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.5.15-4+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.5.15-4+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your plexus-utils packages.

For the detailed security status of plexus-utils please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/plexus-utils

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4146

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-78 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-03-23 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4149.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-21 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4146.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-10 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1236.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-10 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1237.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-03-21 00:18:39
  • First insertion