Juniper Secure Access series (Juniper IVE) XSS

Vulnerability found:
12 October 2009


Vendor informed:
12 October 2009

Severity level:
Medium/High

Credits:
Richard Brain of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com)

Description:
There is a Cross-site Scripting vulnerability on Junipers, IVE web interface.

Procheckup has found by making a malformed request to the IVE Web interface without authentication, that a vanilla cross site scripting (XSS) attack is possible.


Successfully tested on:
Juniper Networks IVE version 6.5R1 (Build 14599)

Model SA-2000
Proof of concept:
http://target-domain.foo/dana-na/auth/url_default/welcome.cgi?p=logout&c=37&u=</script><script>alert(1)</script>

How to fix:
Ensure that the firewall's management interface is disabled on the Internet connected interface, by disabling WeBUI within service
options on the Internet connected interface.

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