Shibboleth Identity and Service Providers Cross Site Scripting Issues


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Shibboleth, which could be exploited by attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information. These issues are caused by input validation errors in the Identity and Service providers when processing malformed URLs, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected Web site.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Shibboleth versions 1.3.xShibboleth versions 2.x
     
Solution   Upgrade to version 1.3.4 or 2.1.5 :https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/IdP2Upgrade
     
CVE   CVE-2009-3300
     
References   http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/secadv/secadv_20091104.txt
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : javascript code found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2009-11-05 

 Target Type 
Client 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote