SNS Vulnerability

OpenX "sessionID" SQL Injection Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in OpenX, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "sessionID" cookie to the administrative interface is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerability is reported in version 2.8.1 and later.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
OpenX (formerly Openads and phpAdsNew) 2.x

Solution

Update to version 2.8.8.

CVE

References

http://blog.openx.org/12/security-matters-3/

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious DROP statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious CREATE statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious DECLARE statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : possible version probing in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious INSERT statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious EXEC statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious UNION statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious HAVING statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious SELECT statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious CAST statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious UPDATE statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OR statement in Cookie	3.5.0
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious DROP statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious EXEC statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : possible version probing in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious CAST statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious SELECT statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious CREATE statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious HAVING statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OR statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious DECLARE statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious INSERT statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious UPDATE statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in Cookie	4.1.2
SQL injection Prevention - Cookie : suspicious UNION statement in Cookie	4.1.2

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2012-03-06

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote