USN-2256-1

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    USN-2256-1

    Published: 25 Jun 2014Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: swift vulnerability

    Details: John Dickinson discovered that Swift did not properly quote the WWW-Authenticate header value. If a user were tricked into navigating to a malicious Swift URL, an attacker could conduct cross-site scripting attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2256-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3497

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: swift

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.13.1-0ubuntu1.1

    Affected versions

    1.10.0~rc1-0ubuntu1
    1.10.0-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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