SNS Vulnerability

Ushahidi Multiple Vulnerabilities

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Ushahidi, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion and SQL injection attacks and by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, and conduct SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed via multiple parameters to multiple scrips is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
List of affected scripts and parameters:
<a href="http://[host]/application/controllers/alerts.php?alert_code&code
" target="_blank">http://[host]/application/contro...ts.php?alert_code&code
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/application/controllers/admin/messages.php?rid
" target="_blank">http://[host]/application/controllers/admin/messages.php?rid
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/application/models/settings.php
" target="_blank">http://[host]/application/models/settings.php
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/application/controllers/json.php?m
" target="_blank">http://[host]/application/controllers/json.php?m
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/application/libraries/api/MY_Countries_Api_Object.php
" target="_blank">http://[host]/application/librar...Y_Countries_Api_Object.php
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/application/libraries/api/MY_Checkin_Api_Object.php
" target="_blank">http://[host]/application/librar.../MY_Checkin_Api_Object.php
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/application/controllers/admin/messages/reporters.php?s&k
" target="_blank">http://[host]/application/contro...ages/reporters.php?s&k
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/application/models/location.php?id
" target="_blank">http://[host]/application/models/location.php?id
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/application/controllers/admin/reports.php?incident_id
" target="_blank">http://[host]/application/contro...in/reports.php?incident_id
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/application/controllers/members/reports.php?incident_id
" target="_blank">http://[host]/application/contro...rs/reports.php?incident_id
</a>
2) Missing authentication checks in application/libraries/api/MY_Email_Api_Object.php and application/libraries/api/MY_Comments_Api_Object.php when handling comments, reports, and email API calls can be exploited to access otherwise restricted functionality.
3) An error in application/libraries/api/MY_Comments_Api_Object.php when handling comments can be exploited to disclose potentially sensitive user details.
4) Input passed via the "page title" tag is not properly sanitised in application/views/admin/layout.php and themes/default/views/header.php before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site if malicious data is viewed.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 2.4 and prior.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Ushahidi 2.x

Solution

Fixed in the GIT repository. A version 2.5 is planned to be released to address the vulnerabilities.

CVE

CVE-2012-3476
CVE-2012-3475
CVE-2012-3474
CVE-2012-3473
CVE-2012-3472
CVE-2012-3471
CVE-2012-3470
CVE-2012-3469
CVE-2012-3468

References

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 - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DECLARE statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data	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 - POST : javascript code found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing	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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement 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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : block comment delimiters 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 - POST : 'script' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data	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 : suspicious SQL statement in header	4.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : javascript code found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Authentication bypass attempt with OR statement	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data	5.0.0

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2012-07-31

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote