Secunia Logo  
 
Apache Geronimo Web-Access-Log Viewer Script Insertion
Secunia Advisory: SA18485
Release Date: 2006-01-16
Last Update: 2006-01-25
Popularity: 9,057 views

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

Software:Apache Geronimo 1.x

Subscribe: Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities

CVE reference:CVE-2006-0254


Description:
Oliver Karow has reported a vulnerability in Apache Geronimo, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed in the URL isn't properly sanitised before being used by the Web-Access-Log viewer. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in user's browser session in context of an affected website when a malicious log entry is viewed in geronimo-admin.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0.

Solution:
The vulnerability has reportedly been fixed in versions 1.0.1 and 1.1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Oliver Karow

Changelog:
2006-01-25: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/geronimo_css.txt
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1474


Track this Secunia Advisory
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.

Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.

About this Secunia Advisory
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
  
Latest Advisories

Send Feedback to Secunia
If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.

Most Popular - 3 Hours

1. NTP OpenSSL "EVP_VerifyFinal()" Spoofing Vulnerability // 43 views
2. Cisco Global Site Selector DNS Request Denial of Service // 38 views
3. Drupal Project Module File Upload and Cross-Site Scripting // 38 views
4. Lasso OpenSSL "DSA_verify()" Spoofing Vulnerability // 37 views
5. phpBB reveals user IPs // 37 views
6. Red Hat update for openssl // 37 views
7. FreeBSD update for openssl // 33 views
8. SmbFTPD Long Command Processing Vulnerability // 33 views
9. tnftpd Long Command Processing Vulnerability // 31 views
10. Drupal Project Issue Tracking Module Multiple Vulnerabilities // 30 views