Owl Intranet Engine Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

BID:12114

Info

Owl Intranet Engine Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 12114
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 26 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 26 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Joxean Koret.
Vulnerable: Owl Owl Intranet Engine 0.73
Owl Owl Intranet Engine 0.72
Owl Owl Intranet Engine 0.71
Owl Owl Intranet Engine 0.7
Owl Owl Intranet Engine 0.6
Not Vulnerable: Owl Owl Intranet Engine 0.80

Discussion

Owl Intranet Engine Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Owl Intranet Engine is prone to multiple cross-site scripting and SQL injection vulnerabilities. The issues are reported to exist in the 'browse.php' script.

An attacker could exploit the cross-site scripting issues by enticing a victim user into following a malicious link that contains hostile HTML and script code. This could be exploited to steal cookie-based authentication credentials.

The SQL injection vulnerabilities could allow the attacker to influence the structure or logic of SQL queries made by the application. This could have various impacts, including compromise of the software, exposure and modification of sensitive information, or a potential for attacks against the database implementation itself.

The attacker may need to provide a valid session ID to exploit these issues.

Exploit / POC

Owl Intranet Engine Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

The following cross-site scripting examples were provided:

http://www.example.com/intranet/browse.php?sess=<replace-with-a-valid-session-id>&parent=115&expand=1'>&lt;script&gt;alert(document.location)
+&lt;/script&gt;&order=creatorid&sortposted=DESC

http://www.example.com/intranet/browse.php?sess=<replace-with-a-valid-session-id>&parent=115&expand=1&order=creatorid'>&lt;script&gt;alert(do
+cument.location)&lt;/script&gt;&sortposted=DESC

The following SQL injection examples were provided:

http://www.example.com/intranet/browse.php?sess=<replace-with-a-valid-session-id>&parent=104
[SQL%20INJECTION]&expand=1&order=creatorid&sortposted=DESC

http://www.example.com/intranet/browse.php?sess=<replace-with-a-valid-session-id>&parent=104&expand=1&order=creatorid&sortposted=DESC[SQL%20I
+NJECTION]

Solution / Fix

Owl Intranet Engine Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released Owl Intranet Engine 0.80 to address these issues. The 0.73 version in the CVS is not affected as well.


Owl Owl Intranet Engine 0.6

Owl Owl Intranet Engine 0.7

Owl Owl Intranet Engine 0.71

Owl Owl Intranet Engine 0.72

Owl Owl Intranet Engine 0.73

References

Owl Intranet Engine Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

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