EJBCA "issuer" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability


Description   Mustlive has discovered a vulnerability in EJBCA, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "issuer" parameter in ejbca/publicweb/webdist/certdist (when "cmd" is set to "revoked" and "serno" is set) 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 4.0.7 and prior and confirmed in version 4.0.5.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
EJBCA 4.x
     
Solution   Update to version 4.0.8.
     
CVE  
     
References   EJBCA:
http://primekey.se/News/All+Releases/Release+detail//EJBCA_4.0.8_release_Feb_2012.cid3129
Mustlive:
http://websecurity.com.ua/5646/
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
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XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL
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XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL
3.2.0
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3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2012-03-12 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote