Sun Java System Communications Express 'UWCMain' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:34155

Info

Sun Java System Communications Express 'UWCMain' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 34155
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2009-1729
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 20 2009 12:00AM
Updated: May 21 2009 04:20PM
Credit: The SCS team from Core Security Technologies
Vulnerable: Sun Java System Communications Express 6.3
Sun Java System Communications Express 2005Q4
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Sun Java System Communications Express 'UWCMain' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Sun Java System Communications Express is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

This issue is tracked by Sun Alert ID 258068.

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 let the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

The following are vulnerable:

Sun Java System Communications Express 6.3 for Sun Java Communications Suite 5 and 6
Sun Java System Communications Express 6 2005Q4 (6.2)

Exploit / POC

Sun Java System Communications Express 'UWCMain' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

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

The following example URI is available:

Solution / Fix

Sun Java System Communications Express 'UWCMain' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released updates. Please see the references for details.


Sun Java System Communications Express 6.3

References

Sun Java System Communications Express 'UWCMain' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

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