Security Advisory SA50376 - IBM HMC Login Panel Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA50376

IBM HMC Login Panel Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA50376

Release Date

2012-08-22

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Cross Site Scripting

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Operating System

IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC)

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2012-3296 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC), which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Certain input passed via "Help link" to the login panel 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 vulnerabilities are reported in versions R7.1.0, R7.2.0, and R7.3.0.

Solution
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Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits CitiGroup, Inc.

Original Advisory
https://www.ibm.com/connections/blogs/PSIRT/entry/security_bulletin_the_help_link_on_the_power_hmc_login_panel_is_susceptible_to_reflected_cross_site_scripting_cve_2012_329617
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/firmware/readme?fixid=MH01258
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/firmware/readme?fixid=MH01253
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/firmware/readme?fixid=MH01257

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