SB2018011109 - Plesk Onyx update for PHP
Published: January 11, 2018 Updated: January 12, 2018
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.
1) Corss-site scrpting (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5712)
CWE-ID: CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in .phar when processing 404 response. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted link, rick tyhe victim into opening it and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in context of vulnerable website.
2) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5711)
CWE-ID: CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in gdImageCreateFromGifCtx() function when processing images with GD library. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted image, pass it to vulnerable application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack via infinite loop.
3) Improper restriction of XML external entity reference (XXE) (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8866)
CWE-ID: CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XXE. attcks.
The vulnerability exists in ext/libxml/libxml.c when using PHP-FPM due to improper isolation of each threat from libxml_disable_entity_loader changes in other threads. A remote attacker can perform XML External Entity (XXE) and XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attacks via a crafted XML document.
Note: this vulnerability is known at least since 2013 and it was patched several times.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.