Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-16394 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
spip
debian
canonical
CWE-203
nessus

Summary

SPIP before 3.1.11 and 3.2 before 3.2.5 provides different error messages from the password-reminder page depending on whether an e-mail address exists, which might help attackers to enumerate subscribers.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Spip
117
OS
Debian
3
OS
Canonical
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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