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Aruba Mobility Controller Authentication Bypass and Cross-Site Scripting

Secunia Advisory: SA30262  
Release Date: 2008-05-15
Last Update: 2008-05-19

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

OS:Aruba 200 Mobility Controller
Aruba 2400 Mobility Controller
Aruba 6000 Modular Mobility Controller
Aruba 800 Mobility Controller


CVE reference:CVE-2008-2272 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-2273 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Aruba Mobility Controller, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions or to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1) An unspecified error in the TACACS authentication component can be exploited to gain unauthorised access to the Aruba Mobility Controller via the web UI, ssh, or telnet.

Successful exploitation requires that TACACS authentication is used (not used by default).

The vulnerability is reported in versions 3.1.x, 3.2.x, and 3.3.x.

2) Input passed via unspecified parameters to the web UI 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 2.4.8.x-FIPS, 2.5.5.x, 2.5.6.x, 3.1.1.x, 3.2.0.x, and 3.3.1.x.

Solution:
Apply the patches.
http://www.arubanetworks.com/support

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2008-05-19: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
AID-051408:
http://www.arubanetworks.com/support/alerts/aid-051408.asc



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3 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Aruba Mobility Controller LDAP User Authentication Security Bypass
2. Aruba Mobility Controller Script Insertion and Cross-Site Scripting
3. Aruba Mobility Controller Two Vulnerabilities


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