Ganglia Web Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Ganglia Web, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via multiple parameters and scripts is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.
List of affected scripts and parameters:
<a href="http://[host]/autorotation.php?view_name
" target="_blank">http://[host]/autorotation.php?view_name
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/actions.php?hreg
" target="_blank">http://[host]/actions.php?hreg
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/actions.php?mreg
" target="_blank">http://[host]/actions.php?mreg
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/actions.php?host_name
" target="_blank">http://[host]/actions.php?host_name
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/actions.php?metric_name
" target="_blank">http://[host]/actions.php?metric_name
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/views_view.php?view_filename
" target="_blank">http://[host]/views_view.php?view_filename
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/views.php?r
" target="_blank">http://[host]/views.php?r
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/views.php?cs
" target="_blank">http://[host]/views.php?cs
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/views.php?ce
" target="_blank">http://[host]/views.php?ce
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/trend_navigation.php?key
" target="_blank">http://[host]/trend_navigation.php?key
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/trend_navigation.php?query_string
" target="_blank">http://[host]/trend_navigation.php?query_string
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?view_name
" target="_blank">http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?view_name
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?r
" target="_blank">http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?r
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?cs
" target="_blank">http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?cs
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?ce
" target="_blank">http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?ce
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?clustername
" target="_blank">http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?clustername
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?hostname
" target="_blank">http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?hostname
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?range
" target="_blank">http://[host]/mobile_helper.php?range
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/header.php?selected_tab
" target="_blank">http://[host]/header.php?selected_tab
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?h
" target="_blank">http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?h
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?c
" target="_blank">http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?c
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?g
" target="_blank">http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?g
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?m
" target="_blank">http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?m
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?hreg
" target="_blank">http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?hreg
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?mreg
" target="_blank">http://[host]/graph_all_periods.php?mreg
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/decompose_graph.php?hreg
" target="_blank">http://[host]/decompose_graph.php?hreg
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/decompose_graph.php?mreg
" target="_blank">http://[host]/decompose_graph.php?mreg
</a>
<a href="http://[host]/compare_hosts.php?hreg
" target="_blank">http://[host]/compare_hosts.php?hreg
</a>
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 3.5.4. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Ganglia Web 3.x
     
Solution   Update to version 3.5.7.
     
CVE   CVE-2013-0275
     
References   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892823
https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/wiki/Release-Notes
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Evasion attempt with CAST and EXEC statements
5.0.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2013-02-11 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote