Adobe Flex 3 History Management 'historyFrame.html' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:29778

Info

Adobe Flex 3 History Management 'historyFrame.html' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 29778
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2008-2640
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 17 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 19 2008 07:11PM
Credit: Ory Segal, Adi Sharabani and Ayal Yogev from IBM Rational Application Security
Vulnerable: Adobe Flex SDK 3.0.1
Adobe Flex Builder 3
Adobe Flex 3.0
Not Vulnerable: Adobe Flex SDK 3.0.2

Discussion

Adobe Flex 3 History Management 'historyFrame.html' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Adobe Flex 3 is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

This issue affects Flex Builder 3, Flex SDK 3.0.1, and any applications built with Flex 3 that have enabled History Management.

Exploit / POC

Adobe Flex 3 History Management 'historyFrame.html' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, an attacker must entice a victim into following a malicious URI.

Solution / Fix

Adobe Flex 3 History Management 'historyFrame.html' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released advisory APSB08-14 to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for details on obtaining and applying the appropriate updates.


Adobe Flex 3.0

Adobe Flex Builder 3

Adobe Flex SDK 3.0.1

References

Adobe Flex 3 History Management 'historyFrame.html' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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