SNS Vulnerability

Aker Secure Mail Gateway "msg_id" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Aker Secure Mail Gateway, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "msg_id" GET parameter to webgui/cf/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 vulnerability is reported in versions 2.5.2 and prior.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Aker Secure Mail Gateway 2.x

Solution

Apply patch. http://download.aker.com.br/prod/current/atualizacoes/aker-secure-mail-gateway-2.5/patch-2/akersecuremailgateway-2.5-pt-box-patch-002-hotfix-023-0002.akp

CVE

CVE-2013-6037

References

Aker:
http://www.aker.com.br/atualizacoes-asmg?field_tipo_value=All
US-CERT (VU#687278):
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/687278

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

2014-03-07

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote