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Namazu namazu.cgi UTF-7 Cross-Site Scripting

Secunia Advisory: SA29386  
Release Date: 2008-03-21
Last Update: 2008-03-25

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

Software:Namazu 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1468 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Namazu, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed in certain character encodings (e.g. UTF-7) to namazu.cgi is not 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 is reported in versions prior to 2.0.18.

Solution:
Update to version 2.0.18.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported via JVN.

Changelog:
2008-03-25: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
JVN:
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2300892830/index.html

Namazu:
http://www.namazu.org/security.html.en



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1 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Namazu "namazu.cgi" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability


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