Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-1516 - Unspecified vulnerability in PHPwebsite

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN
phpwebsite
nessus

Summary

CRLF injection vulnerability in index.php in phpWebSite 0.9.3-4 allows remote attackers to perform HTTP Response Splitting attacks to modify expected HTML content from the server via the block_username parameter in the user module.

Nessus

NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-200411-35.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200411-35 (phpWebSite: HTTP response splitting vulnerability) Due to lack of proper input validation, phpWebSite has been found to be vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks. Impact : A malicious user could inject arbitrary response data, leading to content spoofing, web cache poisoning and other cross-site scripting or HTTP response splitting attacks. This could result in compromising the victim
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id15837
published2004-11-27
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/15837
titleGLSA-200411-35 : phpWebSite: HTTP response splitting vulnerability
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-35.
#
# The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2018 Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
# and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike 
# license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(15837);
  script_version("1.17");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:42");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2004-1516");
  script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"200411-35");

  script_name(english:"GLSA-200411-35 : phpWebSite: HTTP response splitting vulnerability");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200411-35
(phpWebSite: HTTP response splitting vulnerability)

    Due to lack of proper input validation, phpWebSite has been found to be
    vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks.
  
Impact :

    A malicious user could inject arbitrary response data, leading to
    content spoofing, web cache poisoning and other cross-site scripting or
    HTTP response splitting attacks. This could result in compromising the
    victim's data or browser.
  
Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time."
  );
  # http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/380894
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/380894"
  );
  # http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=863
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?26836ccd"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200411-35"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"All phpWebSite users should upgrade to the latest version:
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-apps/phpwebsite-0.9.3_p4-r2'"
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:phpwebsite");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/11/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/11/27");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("qpkg.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (qpkg_check(package:"www-apps/phpwebsite", unaffected:make_list("ge 0.9.3_p4-r2"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 0.9.3_p4-r2"))) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = qpkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "phpWebSite");
}