USN-8978-1

Dawid Golunski discovered that CakePHP incorrectly trusted the CLIENT-IP HTTP header when determining the client IP address. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to spoof their IP address.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / cakephp

Package

Name: cakephp
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/cakephp?arch=source&distro=esm-apps-legacy%2Fxenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.8.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

2.*

2.7.2-1

2.8.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro with Legacy support add-on: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "cakephp",
            "binary_version": "2.8.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cakephp-scripts",
            "binary_version": "2.8.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-4793",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-8978-1.json"