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CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System Server Script Insertion Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA27301  
Release Date: 2007-10-19

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

Software:CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (CA HIPS) 8.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-5472 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (CA HIPS), which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed in certain requests to the server is not properly sanitised before being logged. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when viewing logs.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 8.0.0.93.

Solution:
Apply patches.
http://supportconnect.ca.com/sc/redir.jsp?reqPage=search&searchID=QO91494

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits David Maciejak.

Original Advisory:
http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/cahips/infodocs/cahips-secnotice.asp



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