Atlassian JIRA "name" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability


Description   Gjoko Krstic has reported a vulnerability in Atlassian JIRA, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "name" GET parameter to secure/admin/user/DeleteUser!default.jspa 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.
The vulnerability is reported in version 6.0.3. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Atlassian JIRA 6.x
     
Solution   Update to version 6.0.5.
     
CVE  
     
References   ZSL-2013-5151:
http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2013-5151.php
Atlassian:
https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10240&
version=33790
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
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3.2.0
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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 
2013-08-07 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote