Jaws Search Gadget Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	18665
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jun 13 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Jun 27 2006 05:30PM
Credit:	rgod is credited with the discovery of these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable:	JAWS JAWS 0.6.2
Not Vulnerable:

Jaws Search Gadget Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Jaws is prone to multiple input-validation vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage these issues to compromise the application, access or modify data, steal cookie-based authentication credentials, or exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation. Other attacks may also be possible.

Jaws Search Gadget Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Attackers can use a web browser to exploit these vulnerabilities.

The following exploit is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/Jaws-26-jun-2006.txt

Jaws Search Gadget Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

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]:[email protected].

Jaws Search Gadget Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

References:

• Jaws Homepage (Jaws)
  
• rgod webpage (rgod)
  
• Jaws <= 0.6.2 'Search gadget' SQL injection (rgod)