ZDI-10-135: Novell Groupwise WebAccess Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

ZDI-10-135: Novell Groupwise WebAccess Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-135
July 20, 2010

– CVSS:
4.3, (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

– Affected Vendors:
Novell

– Affected Products:
Novell GroupWise WebAccess

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– Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary client
side script
on vulnerable installations of Novell Groupwise WebAccess.
Authentication is not
required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within handling html messages sent to a Novell
Groupwise
WebAccess user. Messages are improperly sanitized allowing client side
script to
be supplied to the user's web browser resulting in the user's WebAccess
credentials
being compromised.

– Vendor Response:
Novell states:
http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=7006375&sliceId=2&docTypeID=DT_TID_1_1&dialogID=155271273&stateId=0%200%20155267615

http://www.novell.com/support/php/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=7006376&sliceId=2&docTypeID=DT_TID_1_1&dialogID=155271386&stateId=0%200%20155267712

– Disclosure Timeline:
2010-04-05 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-07-20 - Coordinated public release of advisory

– Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by:
* scriptjunkie scriptjunkie1 {nospam} googlemail {nospam} com

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