Security Advisory SA27942 - Lotus Sametime Client Script Execution Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA27942

Lotus Sametime Client Script Execution Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA27942

Release Date

2008-01-16

Last Update

2008-02-04

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

Cross Site Scripting
System access

Where

From local network

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Solution Status

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Software:

IBM Lotus Sametime 7.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2008-0354 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Vikas Singhal has reported a vulnerability in IBM Lotus Sametime, which can be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary script code.

Input passed to the Sametime client via e.g. a hyperlink is not properly sanitised before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary script code via a specially crafted message.

The vulnerability affects versions 7.5 and 7.5.1.

Solution
Reportedly fixed in version 8.0 and targeted for the next release in the 7.5.1 code stream.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Vikas Singhal

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IBM:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21292938

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