Fedora Security Update Fixes NuSOAP Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. This issue is caused by an input validation error in NuSOAP when processing the URL via the "lib/nusoap.php" script, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected site.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Fedora 14Fedora 13Fedora 12
     
Solution   Upgrade the affected package (php-nusoap) : http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/
     
CVE   CVE-2010-3070
     
References   http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/048317.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/048325.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/048413.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/forums/forum/193579/topic/3834005
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' 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 - 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 
2010-09-27 

 Target Type 
Client 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote