SNS Vulnerability

IBM OpenAdmin Tool for Informix Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Description

Sumit Kumar Soni has reported multiple vulnerabilities in IBM OpenAdmin Tool for Informix, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "informixserver", "host", and "port" parameters to index.php 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 vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.72.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
IBM OpenAdmin Tool for Informix 2.x

Solution

Update to version 2.72 or later.

CVE

CVE-2011-3390

References

http://voidroot.blogspot.com/2011/08/xss-in-ibm-open-admin-tool.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

2011-09-07

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote