Arbor Peakflow X Security Bypass and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


Description   Positive Technologies has reported a security issue and multiple vulnerabilities in Arbor Peakflow X, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input passed via multiple GET parameters to multiple URLs 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.
List of affected URLs and parameters:
<a href="http://[host]/explore/entityinfo/?mode_state
" target="_blank">http://[host]/explore/entityinfo/?mode_state
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/explore/risk/?source_type
" target="_blank">http://[host]/explore/risk/?source_type
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/policy/network/?tab
" target="_blank">http://[host]/policy/network/?tab
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/settings/audit/?tab
" target="_blank">http://[host]/settings/audit/?tab
</a>
2) Input appended to the URL after /policy/rules/index/sibears 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 application does not properly restrict access to the lock user functionality. This can be exploited to lock or unlock arbitrary user accounts except the default admin user.
The security issue and the vulnerabilities are reported in version 4.2.3. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable OS:
Arbor Peakflow XVulnerable Software:
     
Solution   Reportedly, the vendor has issued a fix.
     
CVE  
     
References   Positive Technologies:
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2011-18
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2011-24
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
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3.2.0
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XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL
3.2.0
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3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL
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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
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3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Evasion attempt with CAST and EXEC statements
5.0.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2013-11-06 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote