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FastCGI Multiple Sample CGI XSS
medium Nessus Plugin ID 10838
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Synopsis
The remote web server is prone to cross-site scripting attacks.Description
Two sample CGI's supplied with FastCGI are vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. FastCGI is an 'open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitations of server specific APIs', and is included in the default installation of the 'Unbreakable' Oracle9i Application Server. Various other web servers support the FastCGI extensions (Zeus, Pi3Web etc).Two sample CGI's are installed with FastCGI, (echo.exe and echo2.exe under Windows, echo and echo2 under Unix). Both of these CGI's output a list of environment variables and PATH information for various applications. They also display any parameters that were provided to them.
Solution
Always remove sample applications from production servers.Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 10838
File Name: fcgi_echo.nasl
Version: 1.34
Type: remote
Family: CGI abuses : XSS
Published: 1/25/2002
Updated: 1/19/2021
Configuration: Enable paranoid mode
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Vulnerability Information
Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport
Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/1/2002