Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-16391

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
spip
debian
canonical
nessus

Summary

SPIP before 3.1.11 and 3.2 before 3.2.5 allows authenticated visitors to modify any published content and execute other modifications in the database. This is related to ecrire/inc/meta.php and ecrire/inc/securiser_action.php.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Spip
98
OS
Debian
3
OS
Canonical
1

Nessus

  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-4532.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that SPIP, a website engine for publishing, would allow unauthenticated users to modify published content and write to the database, perform cross-site request forgeries, and enumerate registered users.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id129364
    published2019-09-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129364
    titleDebian DSA-4532-1 : spip - security update
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4532. The text 
    # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(129364);
      script_version("1.3");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/12/23");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2019-16391", "CVE-2019-16392", "CVE-2019-16393", "CVE-2019-16394");
      script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4532");
    
      script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4532-1 : spip - security update");
      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:
    "It was discovered that SPIP, a website engine for publishing, would
    allow unauthenticated users to modify published content and write to
    the database, perform cross-site request forgeries, and enumerate
    registered users."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/spip"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/spip"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/spip"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4532"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:
    "Upgrade the spip packages.
    
    For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been
    fixed in version 3.1.4-4~deb9u3.
    
    For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed
    in version 3.2.4-1+deb10u1."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-16393");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:spip");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/09/17");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/09/25");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/09/26");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      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:"10.0", prefix:"spip", reference:"3.2.4-1+deb10u1")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"spip", reference:"3.1.4-4~deb9u3")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
    
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-1975.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that SPIP, a website engine for publishing, would allow unauthenticated users to modify published content and write to the database, perform cross-site request forgeries, and enumerate registered users. For Debian 8
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id130348
    published2019-10-29
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/130348
    titleDebian DLA-1975-1 : spip security update