SNS Vulnerability

F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway "new" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

William Costa has reported a vulnerability in F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "new" parameter to the admin console page 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 7.5.0.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable OS:
F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway 7.xF-Secure Messaging Security Gateway P-SeriesVulnerable Software:

Solution

Apply patch 1862.

CVE

CVE-2014-2844

References

FSC-2014-2:
http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/fsc-2014-2
William Costa:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/223

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

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2014-04-17

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote