SNS Vulnerability

Fedora Security Update Fixes Mojolicious Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "link_to" helper within Mojolicious, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Fedora 14Fedora 13

Solution

Upgrade the affected package (perl-Mojolicious) : http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/

CVE

CVE-2011-1841

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060122.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060126.html

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

2011-05-16

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Local & Remote