SNS Vulnerability

Zimbra Collaboration Server "dictionary" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

Michael Scherer has reported a vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "dictionary" GET parameter to aspell.php (when "text" is not set or set to an empty string) 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 the context of an affected site.
The vulnerability is reported in version 8.0.3 Open Source Edition. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Zimbra Collaboration Server 8.x

Solution

No official solution is currently available.

CVE

References

Michael Scherer:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/05/4

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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Evasion attempt with CAST and EXEC statements	5.0.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2013-04-09

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote