SNS Vulnerability

Symantec Messaging Gateway "displayTab" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

William Costa has reported a vulnerability in Symantec Messaging Gateway, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "displayTab" GET parameter to /brightmail/setting/compliance/DlpConnectFlow$view.flo 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.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 10.5.2.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.x

Solution

Update to version 10.5.2.

CVE

CVE-2014-1648

References

Symantec:
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&
pvid=security_advisory&
suid=20140422_00
William Costa:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/256

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	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 - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	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 - GET : javascript code found in URL	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 - 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

2014-04-24

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote