Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | Swift vulnerability |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-2256-1 | First vendor Publication | 2014-06-25 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2014-06-25 |
| 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 security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: Swift did not properly perform input validation of certain HTTP headers. Software Description: - swift: OpenStack distributed virtual object store Details: John Dickinson discovered that Swift did not properly quote the WWW-Authenticate header value. If a user were tricked into navigating to a malicious Swift URL, an attacker could conduct cross-site scripting attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References: Package Information: |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2256-1 |
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:25109 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25109 | ||
| Title: | USN-2256-1 -- swift vulnerability | ||
| Description: | Swift did not properly perform input validation of certain HTTP headers. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | USN-2256-1 CVE-2014-3497 | Version: | 3 |
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 14.04 | Product(s): | swift |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 6 |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-06-26 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-2256-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-07-07 21:27:34 |
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| 2014-07-03 21:29:08 |
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| 2014-06-27 13:26:21 |
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| 2014-06-26 00:24:15 |
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