Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-0044 - Remote Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability in Albatross

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
albatross
nessus

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in context.py in Albatross web application toolkit before 1.33 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via unspecified vectors involving template files and the "handling of submitted form fields".

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-942.NASL
descriptionA design error has been discovered in the Albatross web application toolkit that causes user-supplied data to be used as part of template execution and hence arbitrary code execution.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id22808
published2006-10-14
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/22808
titleDebian DSA-942-1 : albatross - design error
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-942. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(22808);
  script_version("1.18");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-0044");
  script_bugtraq_id(16252);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"942");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-942-1 : albatross - design error");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"A design error has been discovered in the Albatross web application
toolkit that causes user-supplied data to be used as part of template
execution and hence arbitrary code execution."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-942"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the albatross package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain albatross
packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.20-2."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  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:albatross");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/01/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/10/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/01/16");
  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:"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:"3.1", prefix:"python-albatross", reference:"1.20-2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"python-albatross-common", reference:"1.20-2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"python-albatross-doc", reference:"1.20-2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"python2.2-albatross", reference:"1.20-2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"python2.3-albatross", reference:"1.20-2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");