Vulnerabilities 2008

PR07-09 XSS on Sun Java System Identity Manager 6.0/7.x "activeControl" parameter

• Advisory publicly released: Tuesday, 8 January 2008
• Vulnerability found: Monday, 11 June 2007
• Vendor informed: Monday, 18 June 2007
• Severity level: Medium

• Credits
  Jan Fry and Adrian Pastor of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com)
  ProCheckUp thanks Sun for working with us.
• Description
  Sun Java System Identity Manager is vulnerable to XSS within the "activeControl" parameter processed by the "/idm/user/main.jsp" server-side script.
• Proof of concept
  The provided PoC URL inserts an alert box to simply prove that it's possible to run scripting code within the context of the target domain.
  https://target.tld/idm/user/main.jsp?activeControl=";</script>
  <script>alert('Running_scripting_within_the_
  context_of_'%2bdocument.domain)</script>
• How to fix
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103180-1
• Consequences
  An attacker may be able to cause execution of malicious scripting code in the browser of a user who clicks on a link to Sun Java System Identity Manager.
  This type of attack can result in non-persistent defacement of the target site, or the redirection of confidential information to unauthorised third parties.
  Note: the victim user needs to be authenticated for this vulnerability to be exploitable.
• Server environment
  Sun Java System Identity Manager 6.0 (20061212 SP 2)
  
  Apache-Coyote/1.1
  
  Apache Tomcat/5.0.28
• Client environment
  Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11
  Sun has confirmed the following products to be affected by this issue:
  Sun Java System Identity Manager 6.0, Sun Java System Identity Manager 7.0, Sun Java System Identity Manager 7.1
• Injected payload
  ";</script><script>alert('Running_scripting_within_the_context_of_'%2b
  document.domain)</script>
• BID
  27214
• References
  

  
  http://www.procheckup.com/Vulnerabilities

  
  
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