2.6 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
72.9%
HTML::Scrubber is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability when the comment feature is enabled. It allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted comment.
For Debian 6 squeeze, this has been fixed in libhtml-scrubber-perl version 0.08-4+deb6u1.
Cheers,
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-339-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(86712);
script_version("2.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-5667");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-339-1 : libhtml-scrubber-perl security update");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"HTML::Scrubber is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability when the comment feature is enabled. It allows remote
attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted
comment.
For Debian 6 squeeze, this has been fixed in libhtml-scrubber-perl
version 0.08-4+deb6u1.
Cheers,
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/11/msg00000.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/libhtml-scrubber-perl"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Upgrade the affected libhtml-scrubber-perl package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libhtml-scrubber-perl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/11/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/11/04");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libhtml-scrubber-perl", reference:"0.08-4+deb6u1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_note(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | libhtml-scrubber-perl | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libhtml-scrubber-perl |
debian | debian_linux | 6.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0 |