Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-3714 - Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Awstats 6.8

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(35290);
  script_version("1.16");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:39");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2008-3714", "CVE-2008-5080");
  script_xref(name:"Secunia", value:"31519");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : awstats -- multiple XSS vulnerabilities (27d78386-d35f-11dd-b800-001b77d09812)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Secunia reports :

Morgan Todd has discovered a vulnerability in AWStats, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed in the URL to awstats.pl is not properly sanitised before
being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary
HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an
affected site.

Successful exploitation requires that the application is running as a
CGI script."
  );
  # http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/27d78386-d35f-11dd-b800-001b77d09812.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?61687de8"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_cwe_id(79);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:awstats");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:awstats-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2008/03/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/01/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/01/05");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"awstats<6.9,1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"awstats-devel>0")) flag++;

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