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Ubuntu: USN-4970-1 (CVE-2021-33516): GUPnP vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4970-1 (CVE-2021-33516): GUPnP vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/24/2021
Created
06/03/2021
Added
06/02/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in GUPnP before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.5. It allows DNS rebinding. A remote web server can exploit this vulnerability to trick a victim's browser into triggering actions against local UPnP services implemented using this library. Depending on the affected service, this could be used for data exfiltration, data tempering, etc.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgupnp-1-2-0

References

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