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Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Hyperic HQ, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1) Input passed e.g. via the "typeId" parameter to mastheadAttach.do, the "eid" parameter to Resource.do, and via the "u" parameter to admin/user/UserAdmin.do is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user in an exception handler within hq/web/common/GenericError.jsp. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

2) Input passed via the "Description" parameter is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user in an alert list. 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 the malicious data is being viewed.

These vulnerabilities are reported in version 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2-beta1, AMS 2.0.0.SR3 and tc Server 6.0.20.B. Other versions may also be affected.

3) Input passed via unspecified input fields is not properly sanitised before being used. 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 the malicious data is being viewed.

This vulnerability is reported in version 4.0, 4.1, 4.2-beta1, AMS 2.0.0.SR3 and tc Server 6.0.20.B. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
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Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits:
1) Eric Searcy, Gastón Rey and Pablo Carballo from Core Security Technologies.
2) Aaron Kulick of CBS Interactive, Gastón Rey and Pablo Carballo from Core Security Technologies.
3) Aaron Kulick of CBS Interactive.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
SpringSource:
http://www.springsource.com/security/cve-2009-2897
http://www.springsource.com/security/cve-2009-2898
http://www.springsource.com/security/cve-2009-2907

Core Security Technologies:
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/hyperic-hq-vulnerabilities

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