PISG IRC Nick HTML Injection Vulnerability

BID:10195

Info

PISG IRC Nick HTML Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 10195
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 22 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 22 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: pisg pisg 0.54
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

PISG IRC Nick HTML Injection Vulnerability

pisg has been reported prone to an input validation vulnerability. The issue will only present itself when pisg is used to monitor an IRC server that does not place limitations on IRC Nick values that can be used.

If an attacker specifies HTML code as a value for the IRC Nickname, this value may be incorporated into the HTML pages that are generated by pisg.

Exploit / POC

PISG IRC Nick HTML Injection Vulnerability

The following example has been supplied:

PROOF:
1. silc
2. /connect %Suitable IRC server%
3. /nick <script>alert(document.domain);</script>
4. /log ...
5. /me a couple of times on a channel
6. /quit
3. then generate stats ./pisg
4. surf the index.html

Solution / Fix

PISG IRC Nick HTML Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

PISG IRC Nick HTML Injection Vulnerability

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