eGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

BID:13212

Info

eGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 13212
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Unknown
Local: Unknown
Published: Apr 18 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 18 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery credited to James from GulfTech Security Research.
Vulnerable: eGroupWare eGroupWare 1.0.6
eGroupWare eGroupWare 1.0.3
eGroupWare eGroupWare 1.0.1
eGroupWare eGroupWare 1.0
Not Vulnerable: eGroupWare eGroupWare 1.0 .0.007
+ Debian Linux 3.1 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.1 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.1 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.1 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.1 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.1 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.1 amd64
 + Debian Linux 3.1 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.1
+ Gentoo Linux

Discussion

eGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

eGroupWare is prone to multiple input validation vulnerabilities. A fixed version is available.

The issues arise due to a failure of the application to properly validate user-supplied input. These issues result in cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks.

Exploit / POC

eGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

An exploit is not required. The following proof of concepts were supplied:

For the cross-site scripting issues:
http://egroupware/index.php?menuaction=addressbook.uiaddressbook.edit&ab_id=11[XSS]
http://egroupware/index.php?menuaction=manual.uimanual.view&page=ManualAddressbook[XSS]
http://egroupware/index.php?menuaction=forum.uiforum.post&type=new[XSS]
http://egroupware/wiki/index.php?page=RecentChanges[XSS]
http://egroupware/wiki/index.php?action=history&page=WikkiTikkiTavi&lang=en[XSS]
http://egroupware/index.php?menuaction=wiki.uiwiki.edit&page=setup[XSS]
http://egroupware/sitemgr/sitemgr-site/?category_id=4[XSS]

For the SQL injection issues:
http://egroupware/tts/index.php?filter=u99[SQL]
http://egroupware/tts/index.php?filter=c99[SQL]
http://egroupware/index.php?menuaction=preferences.uicategories.index&cats_app=foobar[SQL]

Solution / Fix

eGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Gentoo has released advisory GLSA 200504-24 and a fix to address this issue. To obtain the upgrade, enter the following commands:

emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/egroupware-1.0.0.007"

A fix is available:


eGroupWare eGroupWare 1.0

eGroupWare eGroupWare 1.0.1

eGroupWare eGroupWare 1.0.3

eGroupWare eGroupWare 1.0.6

References

eGroupWare Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

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