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OpenCA Web Frontend Script Insertion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA12473
Release Date: 2004-09-08
Popularity: 5,107 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:OpenCA 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-0787


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenCA, which can be exploited by malicous people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to the web frontends is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious user data is viewed.

The vulnerability affects all versions of OpenCA, including 0.9.1-8 and 0.9.2 RC6.

Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 0.9.1-9 and CVS head.
http://www.openca.org/openca/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://www.openca.org/news/CAN-2004-0787.txt


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