Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-1059 - Remote Authentication Bypass vulnerability in Linksys WET11 Password Update

047910
CVSS 2.1 - LOW
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE
local
low complexity
linksys
nessus

Summary

Linksys WET11 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to change the password without providing the original password via the data parameter to changepw.html.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Hardware
Linksys
3

Nessus

NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
NASL idFEDORA_2006-259.NASL
description--------------------------------------------------------------------- - Thu Mar 30 2006 Jay Fenlason <fenlason at redhat.com> 2.0.21c-1.fc5 - New upstream version, fixing bz#187170 CVE-2005-1059 Samba clear text password exposure - include gnutls-devel in BuildRequires Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id21169
published2006-04-03
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/21169
titleFedora Core 5 : samba-3.0.22-1.fc5 (2006-259)
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2006-259.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(21169);
  script_version ("1.13");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:24");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-1059");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2006-259");

  script_name(english:"Fedora Core 5 : samba-3.0.22-1.fc5 (2006-259)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"---------------------------------------------------------------------

  - Thu Mar 30 2006 Jay Fenlason <fenlason at redhat.com>
    2.0.21c-1.fc5

    - New upstream version, fixing bz#187170 CVE-2005-1059
      Samba clear text password exposure

  - include gnutls-devel in BuildRequires

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2006-March/001962.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b6213f30"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:samba");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:samba-client");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:samba-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:samba-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:samba-swat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/03/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/04/03");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

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

  exit(0);
}


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

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^5([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 5.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) 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, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"samba-3.0.22-1.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"samba-client-3.0.22-1.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"samba-common-3.0.22-1.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"samba-debuginfo-3.0.22-1.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"samba-swat-3.0.22-1.fc5")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "samba / samba-client / samba-common / samba-debuginfo / samba-swat");
}