Executive Summary
This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | mahara security update |
| Informations | |||
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| Name | DSA-2540 | First vendor Publication | 2012-09-07 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2012-09-07 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | |||
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| Overall CVSS Score | 6.1 | ||
| Base Score | 6.1 | Environmental Score | 6.1 |
| impact SubScore | 2.7 | Temporal Score | 6.1 |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | 2.8 | ||
| Attack Vector | Network | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None | User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Changed | Confidentiality Impact | Low |
| Integrity Impact | Low | Availability Impact | None |
| Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores | |||
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | |||
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| 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
| Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that Mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder, contains multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities due to missing sanitization and insufficient encoding of user-supplied data. For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.6-2+squeeze5. For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.1-2. We recommend that you upgrade your mahara packages. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2540 |
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:18571 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18571 | ||
| Title: | DSA-2540-1 mahara - cross-site scripting | ||
| Description: | Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that Mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder, contains multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities due to missing sanitisation and insufficient encoding of user-supplied data. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | DSA-2540-1 CVE-2012-2237 | Version: | 7 |
| Platform(s): | Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0 | Product(s): | mahara |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2012-09-15 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2540-1 (mahara) File : nvt/deb_2540_1.nasl |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
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| 2012-09-10 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-2540.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2020-05-23 13:03:42 |
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| 2014-02-17 11:31:20 |
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