Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title New ikiwiki packages fix cross-site scripting
Informations
Name DSA-1523 First vendor Publication 2008-03-17
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2008-03-17
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: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

Josh Triplett discovered that ikiwiki did not block Javascript in URLs, leading to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-0808, CVE-2008-0809).

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.33.4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.31.1.

The old stable distribution (sarge) did not contain an ikiwiki package.

We recommend that you upgrade your ikiwiki package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1523

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:18723
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18723
Title: DSA-1523-1 ikiwiki - cross-site scripting
Description: Josh Triplett discovered that ikiwiki did not block Javascript in URLs, leading to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (<a href="http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0808">CVE-2008-0808</a>, <a href="http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0809">CVE-2008-0809</a>).
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1523-1
CVE-2008-0808
CVE-2008-0809
Version: 9
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): ikiwiki
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7694
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7694
Title: DSA-1523 ikiwiki -- cross-site scripting
Description: Josh Triplett discovered that ikiwiki did not block Javascript in URLs, leading to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-0808, CVE-2008-0809). The old stable distribution (sarge) did not contain an ikiwiki package.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1523
CVE-2008-0808
CVE-2008-0809
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): ikiwiki
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 52

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: ikiwiki
File : nvt/freebsd_ikiwiki0.nasl
2008-03-19 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1523-1 (ikiwiki)
File : nvt/deb_1523_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
41477 ikiwiki meta plugin javascript: URL XSS

41476 ikiwiki htmlscrubber javascript: URL XSS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-03-21 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1523.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-02-12 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_739329c8d8f011dcac2f0016d325a0ed.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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