SNS Vulnerability

MIMEsweeper for SMTP Error Message Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in MIMEsweeper for SMTP, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via multiple GET parameters to multiple scripts is not properly sanitised in MSWPMM/Common/Error.aspx 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 scripts and parameters:
<a href="http://[HOST]/MSWPMM/Common/Reminder.aspx?email
" target="_blank">http://[HOST]/MSWPMM/Common/Reminder.aspx?email
</a>
<a href="http://[HOST]/MSWPMM/Common/NewAccount.aspx?email&ddlCulture&btnCreateAccount&btnCancel
" target="_blank">http://[HOST]/MSWPMM/Common/NewA...reateAccount&btnCancel
</a>
<a href="http://[HOST]/MSWPMM/Common/SignIn.aspx?tbEmailAddress&tbPassword&cbAutoSignIn&btnSignIn&reason
" target="_blank">http://[HOST]/MSWPMM/Common/Sign...n&btnSignIn&reason
</a>
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 5.4. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
MIMEsweeper for SMTP 5.x

Solution

No official solution is currently available.

CVE

References

Anastasios Monachos:
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/120374/MIMEsweeper-For-SMTP-5.5-Cross-Site-Scripting.html

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

2013-02-19

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote