SNS Vulnerability

Mojarra JSF2 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

(:A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been identified in Mojarra JSF2.:A remote attacker could exploit it in order to execute arbitrary Javascript or HTML code by inciting his victim into following a specially formed link.::This vulnerability is due to an incorrect sanitization of special characters contents located in "outputText" tags and "raw EL" expressions.::The mojarra packages provided by Debian Squeeze 6 and Wheezy 7 are vulnerable.)

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable OS:
GNU/Linux (Debian) - 6, 7Vulnerable Software:
Enterprise Manager Grid Control 12g (Oracle) - 12.1.0, 12.1.0.1, 12.1.0.2, 12.1.0.3, 12.1.0.4, 12.1.0.5, 12.2.0, 12.2.1, 12.3.0JBPM (JBoss Inc.) - 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3WebLogic Server (Oracle) - 10.0.2.0, 10.3.6.0, 12.1.1.0, 12.1.2.0

Solution

Oracle has released the January 2016 critical patches set for Enterprise Manager Grid Control which fixes this vulnerability.

CVE

CVE-2013-5855

References

- Debian Security Tracker : mojarra
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-5855
- Red Hat : CVE-2013-5855 Mojarra JSF2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-5855
- Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2014
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html
- RHSA-2015:0234-1 : Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.0.3 security update
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0234.html
- Oracle : Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2016
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html#AppendixEM

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

2014-02-13

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote