CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
80.3%
Lukasz Pilorz discovered that the HTML filtering used in Moodle was not strict enough. A remote attacker could send malicious requests to Moodle and execute arbitrary code as the web server user.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu Security Notice USN-658-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(36491);
script_version("1.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-1502");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"658-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : moodle vulnerability (USN-658-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Lukasz Pilorz discovered that the HTML filtering used in Moodle was
not strict enough. A remote attacker could send malicious requests to
Moodle and execute arbitrary code as the web server user.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu 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://usn.ubuntu.com/658-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected moodle package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"d2_elliot_name", value:"Moodle <= 1.8.4 RCE");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_d2_elliot", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_canvas", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"canvas_package", value:'D2ExploitPack');
script_cwe_id(79);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:moodle");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2008/03/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/10/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/04/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2008-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! ereg(pattern:"^(7\.10|8\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"moodle", pkgver:"1.8.2-1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"moodle", pkgver:"1.8.2-1ubuntu4.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "moodle");
}