NetSaro Enterprise Messenger Multiple Vulnerabilities


Description   Two weaknesses and multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NetSaro Enterprise Messenger, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information, by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks, and by malicious people to disclose sensitive information and conduct cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks.
1) The application stores the administrator's credentials in Base64-encoded format in the configuration.xml file.
2) The application stores user credentials in clear text in the Db/NetSaro.fdb file.
3) Input passed via the URL is not properly verified before being used to display files. This can be exploited to disclose the source code via URL-encoded NULL bytes.
4) Input passed via the "FromUser" parameter to archive-announcement.nsp and the "FromUsers" parameter to archive-message.nsp is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
5) Input passed via the "name" and "description" parameters to department-add.nsp and the "username", "firstname", "lastname", "jobtitle", and "email" parameters to user-add.nsp is not properly sanitised before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.
6) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. add new users by tricking a logged in administrative user into visiting a malicious web site.
The weaknesses and vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2.1. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
NetSaro Enterprise Messenger 2.x
     
Solution   Restrict access to the system to trusted users only. Restrict access to trusted hosts only. Do not browse untrusted sites or follow untrusted links while being logged-in to the application.
     
CVE   CVE-2011-3694
CVE-2011-3693
CVE-2011-3692
     
References   Solutionary (SERT-VDN-1010
SERT-VDN-1011
SERT-VDN-1012):
http://www.solutionary.com/index/SERT/Vuln-Disclosures/NetSaro-Enterprise-Messenger-Vuln-Password.html
http://www.solutionary.com/index/SERT/Vuln-Disclosures/NetSaro-Enterprise-Messenger-Vulnerability.html
http://www.solutionary.com/index/SERT/Vuln-Disclosures/NetSaro-Enterprise-Messenger-Source-Code.html
Narendra Shinde:
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/104625/SV-2011-004.txt
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
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 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2011-08-16 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote