VeriSign Kontiki Delivery Management System 'action' Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	31580
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-4393
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Oct 03 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	Oct 06 2008 08:48PM
Credit:	Mazin Faour
Vulnerable:	VeriSign Kontiki Delivery Management System 5.0
Not Vulnerable:

VeriSign Kontiki Delivery Management System 'action' Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Kontiki Delivery Management System is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

Kontiki Delivery Management System 5.0 and prior versions are vulnerable.

VeriSign Kontiki Delivery Management System 'action' Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

To exploit this issue an attacker entices an unsuspecting user into following a malicious URI.

The following example URI is available:

http://www.example.com/zodiac/servlet/zodiac?action=%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E

VeriSign Kontiki Delivery Management System 'action' Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

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

VeriSign Kontiki Delivery Management System 'action' Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• IRM Security Advisory: VeriSign Kontiki Delivery Management System (DMS) Cross-S (IRM Research)
  
• Kontiki Delivery Management System Homepage (VeriSign)
  
• Patch for Kontiki Delivery Management System (VeriSign)