Vulnerabilities 2009

PR08-22 Persistent XSS on Novell GroupWise WebAccess

• Advisory publicly released: Friday, 30 January 2009
• Vulnerability found: Thursday, 2 October 2008
• Vendor informed: Friday, 3 October 2008
• Severity level: High

• Credits
  Jan Fry of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com). ProCheckUp thanks Novell for working with us in such a professional manner.
• Description
  Novell GroupWise Webaccess (7.0.3) is vulnerable to a *persistent* XSS via HTML email or HTML attachments.
• Proof of concept
  As kindly requested by Novell, ProCheckUp will delay publication of the PoC details to allow GroupWise customers time to apply the recommended security patches.
• How to fix
  http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?usemicrosite=true&searchString=7002320
• Sucessfully tested on
  Novell GroupWise WebAcess 7.0.3
  
  Novell has confirmed the following versions to be affected by this vulnerability:
  
  GroupWise 6.5x
  GroupWise 7.0, 7.01, 7.02x, 7.03
  GroupWise 8.0 (shipping 8.0 release only)
• CVE reference
  CVE-2009-0273
• Consequences
  An attacker may be able to cause execution of malicious scripting code in the browser of any user. Such code would run within the security context of the target domain.
  
  This type of attack can result in a persistent defacement of the target site, or the redirection of confidential information (i.e.: session IDs, address books, emails) to unauthorised third parties.
  
  Since this XSS is of persistent nature, the user wouldn't have to be tricked to visit a specially-crafted URL, but just read an e-mail.
• References
  

  
  http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

  
  
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