Plugin ID | 269 |
Plugin name | Horde IMP prior 3.1 status.php3 cross site scripting |
Plugin filename | Horde IMP prior 2.2.8 status.php3 cross site scripting.plugin |
Plugin filesize | 3384 bytes |
Plugin family | CGI |
Plugin created name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin created email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin created web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin created company | computec.ch |
Plugin created date | 2004/11/04 |
Plugin updated name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin updated email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin updated web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin updated company | computec.ch |
Plugin updated date | 2004/11/14 |
Plugin version | 2.0 |
Plugin changelog | Improved the pattern matching and introduced the plugin changelog in 2.0 |
Plugin protocol | tcp |
Plugin port | 80 |
Plugin procedure exploit | open|send GET /status.php3?script=<script>atk</script> HTTP/1.0\n\n|sleep|close|pattern_exists HTTP/#.# ### *<script>atk</script>* |
Plugin exploit accuracy | 99 |
Plugin comment | Check is inspired by the Nessus plugin. It says that only Horde IMP prior 2.2.8 is vulnerable. But this seems not to be true because the BugTraq posting by Brent J. Nordquist indicates Horde IMP 3.1 as the invulnerable version [http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276748]. |
Bug published name | Nuno Loureiro |
Bug published email | nuno at eth dot pt |
Bug published date | 2004/04/06 |
Bug advisory | http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276748 |
Bug affected | Horde IMP prior 3.1 |
Bug not affected | Horde IMP 3.1 and newer or other web servers |
Bug vulnerability class | Cross Site Scripting |
Bug description | The remote host is running at least one instance of Horde IMP in which the status.php3 script is vulnerable to a cross site scripting attack since information passed to it is not properly sanitized. |
Bug solution | Upgrade to IMP version 2.2.8 or later. Also limit unwanted connections and communications with firewalling if possible. |
Bug fixing time | Approx. 30 minutes |
Bug exploit availability | Yes |
Bug exploit url | http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4444/exploit/ |
Bug remote | Yes |
Bug local | Yes |
Bug severity | Medium |
Bug popularity | 6 |
Bug simplicity | 8 |
Bug impact | 8 |
Bug risk | 7 |
Bug Nessus risk | Low |
Bug check tools | Nessus is able to do the same check. |
Source CVE | CAN-2002-0181 |
Source SecurityFocus BID | 4444 |
Source OSVDB ID | 5345 |
Source Nessus ID | 15616 |
Source Literature | Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz, February 25, 2003, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, ISBN 0072227427 |
Source Misc. | http://bugs.horde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916 |