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F5 Firepass 4100 SSL VPN "backurl" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA27647
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Release Date:
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2007-11-13
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Last Update:
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2007-11-15
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Popularity:
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5,040 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | FirePass 5.x
FirePass 6.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-5979
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Description:
Jan Fry and Adrian Pastor have reported a vulnerability in F5 Firepass 4100 SSL VPN, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "backurl" parameter in download_plugin.php3 isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerability reportedly affects versions 5.4 to 5.5.2 and 6.0 to 6.0.1.
Solution:
The vendor has issued a solution at:
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/400/sol7498.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
Jan Fry and Adrian Pastor, Procheckup Ltd
Changelog:
2007-11-15: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
F5:
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/400/sol7498.html
Procheckup Ltd:
http://www.procheckup.com/Vulnerability_PR07-13.php
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