Debian: DSA-4773-1 Moderate: Yaws XXE Injection and RCE Threats
debian
October 16, 2020
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in yaws, a high performance HTTP 1.1 webserver written in Erlang
Topics Covered
Summary
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.
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.
For the detailed security status of yaws please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/yaws
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: yaws
CVE ID: CVE-2020-24379 CVE-2020-24916
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