SiteMinder 5.5 Multiple Script XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18670

Synopsis

The remote web server contains a CGI script that is affected by several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

Description

The remote host is running SiteMinder, an access-management solution from Netegrity / Computer Associates.

The installed version of SiteMinder suffers from several cross-site scripting flaws in its 'smpwservicescgi.exe' and 'login.fcc' scripts. An attacker can exploit these flaws to inject arbitrary HTML and script code into the browsers of users of the affected application, thereby leading to cookie theft, site mis-representation, and similar attacks.

Solution

Unknown at this time.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Jul/111

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Jul/161

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18670

File Name: siteminder_mult_xss.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: remote

Published: 7/11/2005

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2204

BID: 14203

CWE: 20, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 74, 750, 751, 79, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990