Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Swift vulnerabilities (USN-2704-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85252

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Rajaneesh Singh discovered Swift does not properly enforce metadata limits. An attacker could abuse this issue to store more metadata than allowed by policy. (CVE-2014-7960)

Clay Gerrard discovered Swift allowed users to delete the latest version of object regardless of object permissions when allow_version is configured. An attacker could use this issue to delete objects.
(CVE-2015-1856).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2704-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85252

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2704-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/6/2015

Updated: 10/23/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1856

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-account, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-container, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-object, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-object-expirer, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-proxy, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-swift

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7960, CVE-2015-1856

USN: 2704-1