Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name MDVSA-2008:203 First vendor Publication 2008-09-23
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2008-09-23
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was found in AWStats that allowed remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query_string (CVE-2008-3714).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:203

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20224
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20224
Title: DSA-1679-1 awstats - cross-site scripting
Description: Morgan Todd discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in awstats, a log file analyzer, involving the "config" request parameter (and possibly others; <a href="http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3714">CVE-2008-3714</a>).
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1679-1
CVE-2008-3714
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): awstats
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8151
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8151
Title: DSA-1679 awstats -- cross-site scripting
Description: Morgan Todd discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in awstats, a log file analyzer, involving the "config" request parameter (and possibly others; CVE-2008-3714).
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1679
CVE-2008-3714
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): awstats
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-12-10 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-12444 (awstats)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_12444.nasl
2009-10-19 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:266 (awstats)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_266.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for awstats vulnerability USN-686-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_686_1.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for awstats FEDORA-2008-7663
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_7663_awstats_fc9.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for awstats FEDORA-2008-7684
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_7684_awstats_fc8.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for awstats FEDORA-2008-10938
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_10938_awstats_fc8.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for awstats FEDORA-2008-10950
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_10950_awstats_fc10.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for awstats FEDORA-2008-10962
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_10962_awstats_fc9.nasl
2009-01-07 Name : FreeBSD Ports: awstats
File : nvt/freebsd_awstats3.nasl
2008-12-10 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1679-1 (awstats)
File : nvt/deb_1679_1.nasl
2008-12-09 Name : AWStats awstats.pl XSS Vulnerability - Dec08
File : nvt/gb_awstats_xss_vuln.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
47536 AWStats awstats.pl URL XSS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-10950.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-686-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-05 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_27d78386d35f11ddb800001b77d09812.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-10938.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-10962.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-04 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1679.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-10 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-7663.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-10 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-7684.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO