Vulnerabilities 2010

PR10-03 Authenticated XSS within the Apache Axis2 administration console

• Advisory publicly released: Friday, 21 May 2010
• Vulnerability found: Saturday, 30 January 2010
• Vendor informed: Monday, 1 February 2010
• Severity level: Medium/High

• Credits
  Richard Brain of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com)
• Description
  Axis2 is a web services/SOAP/WDSL engine, widely used within many commercial products Procheckup has found it used within SAP Business Objects 12 and 3com's IMC network management tool.
  
  
  http://ws.apache.org/axis2/
• Proof of concept
  The following demonstrate the XSS flaw:
  
  1) Authenticated XSS normally login as admin and axis2
  
  
  http://target-domain.foo:8080/imcws/axis2-admin/axis2-admin/axis2-web/axis2-admin/axis2-admin/engagingglobally?submit=%2bEngage%2b&modules=<script>alert(1)</script>
  Note: The above path will change depending on how axis2 has been installed.
  
  
  Comfirmed vulnerable versions
  1.4.1
  
  
  Used within many different programs SAP business objects and 3COM IMS
  
  
  Is vulnerable to a vanilla XSS
  
  
  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 a Axis 2 website. 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.: session IDs) to unauthorised third parties.
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