Adobe RoboHelp Server Help Errors Log Cross-Site Scripting and SQL-Injection Vulnerabilities

BID:30137

Info

Adobe RoboHelp Server Help Errors Log Cross-Site Scripting and SQL-Injection Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 30137
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2008-2991
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 08 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 19 2009 10:42PM
Credit: The Vulnerability Research Team of Assurent Secure Technologies (a TELUS company) and Greg Patton of PropertyInfo Corporation
Vulnerable: Adobe RoboHelp Server 7
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP5
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP4
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP3
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP2
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP1
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
 - Microsoft Windows XP Home
Adobe RoboHelp Server 6
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP5
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP5
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP4
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP4
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP3
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP3
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP2
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP2
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP1
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP1
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
 - Microsoft Windows XP Home
- Microsoft Windows XP Home
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Adobe RoboHelp Server Help Errors Log Cross-Site Scripting and SQL-Injection Vulnerabilities

Adobe RoboHelp Server is prone to cross-site scripting and SQL-injection vulnerabilities because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

A successful exploit may allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

Exploit / POC

Adobe RoboHelp Server Help Errors Log Cross-Site Scripting and SQL-Injection Vulnerabilities

Attackers can exploit this issue via a browser.

Solution / Fix

Adobe RoboHelp Server Help Errors Log Cross-Site Scripting and SQL-Injection Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released a fix. Please see the references for more information.


Adobe RoboHelp Server 6

Adobe RoboHelp Server 7

References

Adobe RoboHelp Server Help Errors Log Cross-Site Scripting and SQL-Injection Vulnerabilities

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