Executive Summary

Summary
Title Requests vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2531-1 First vendor Publication 2015-03-16
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-03-16
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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 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 14.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Requests could be made to expose cookies over the network.

Software Description: - requests: elegant and simple HTTP library for Python

Details:

Matthew Daley discovered that Requests incorrectly handled cookies without host values when being redirected. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform session fixation or cookie stealing attacks.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
python-requests 2.3.0-1ubuntu0.1
python3-requests 2.3.0-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
python-requests 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.2
python3-requests 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2531-1
CVE-2015-2296

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/requests/2.3.0-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/requests/2.2.1-1ubuntu0.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2531-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 11
Os 2
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-06-12 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-541.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-20 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-512.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2015-4084.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-133.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2531-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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2015-03-19 05:29:05
  • Multiple Updates
2015-03-18 21:30:57
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2015-03-18 13:27:41
  • Multiple Updates
2015-03-16 17:24:53
  • First insertion