Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Cross-Site Scripting and Request Forgery


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks.
1) Input appended to the URL after /console/apps/sepm 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.
2) Input passed via the "token" parameter to portal/Help.jsp 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.
3) The portal 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 an administrative user by tricking a logged in administrator into visiting a malicious web site.
4) Input passed via the "Msg" parameter to portal/TestConnection.jsp 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.
Vulnerabilities #1 - #4 are confirmed in version 11.0.6 Maintenance Patch 2 (11.0.6200.754) and vulnerabilities #2 - #4 are confirmed in version 12.1. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager 11.xSymantec Endpoint Protection Manager 12.x
     
Solution   Update to version 11.0.7000 RU7 or version 12.1 RU1.
     
CVE   CVE-2011-0551
CVE-2011-0550
     
References   Symantec:
http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&
pvid=security_advisory&
year=2011&
suid=20110810_00
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&
pvid=security_advisory&
year=2012&
suid=20120116_00
Sachin Shinde(Cons0ul):
http://cons0ul.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/sym11-09-cross-site-scripting-and-how-to-root-using-it/
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
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 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2011-08-11 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote