SNS Vulnerability

PNP4Nagios Two URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in PNP4Nagios, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input appended to the URL is not properly sanitised in "views/kohana_error_page.php" 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.
2) Input appended to the URL is not properly sanitised in "views/template.php" 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.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
PNP4Nagios 0.x

Solution

Fixed in the GIT repository.

CVE

CVE-2014-4908

References

PNP4Nagios:
https://github.com/lingej/pnp4nagios/commit/e4a19768a5c5e5b1276caf3dd5bb721a540ec014
https://github.com/lingej/pnp4nagios/commit/cb925073edeeb97eb4ce61a86cdafccc9b87f9bb

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

2014-07-02

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote