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Debian: Security Advisory for yaws (DSA-4773-1)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'yaws' package(s) announced via the DSA-4773-1 advisory.
Insight
Insight
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in yaws, a high performance HTTP 1.1 webserver written in Erlang. CVE-2020-24379 The WebDAV implementation is prone to a XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability. CVE-2020-24916 The CGI implementation does not properly sanitize CGI requests allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands via specially crafted CGI executable names.
Affected Software
Affected Software
'yaws' package(s) on Debian Linux.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.6+dfsg-1+deb10u1. We recommend that you upgrade your yaws packages.