SNS Vulnerability

Nagios XI "div" and "view" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Description

0a29406d9794e4f9b30b3c5d6702c708 has reported two vulnerabilities in Nagios XI, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "div" parameter to includes/components/graphexplorer/visApi.php and the "view" parameter to nagiosxi/perfgraphs/index.php 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 vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2011r3.0.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Nagios XI 2011.x

Solution

Update to version 2011r3.0.

CVE

References

0a29406d9794e4f9b30b3c5d6702c708:
http://0a29.blogspot.dk/2012/06/0a29-12-1-cross-site-scripting.html
Nagios XI changelog:
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-2011.TXT

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

2012-06-15

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote