IBM Lotus Connections Mobile Activities Pages Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	36831
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Oct 22 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	Oct 27 2009 03:18PM
Credit:	IBM
Vulnerable:	IBM Lotus Connections 2.5
Not Vulnerable:

IBM Lotus Connections Mobile Activities Pages Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

IBM Lotus Connections is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

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

IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 is affected; other versions may be vulnerable as well.

IBM Lotus Connections Mobile Activities Pages Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting victim into following a malicious URI.

IBM Lotus Connections Mobile Activities Pages Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for details.

IBM Lotus Connections Mobile Activities Pages Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• Lotus Connections - Social software for business (IBM)
  
• LO43637 Mobile: Mandatory iFix: XSS fixes for mobile Activities pages (IBM)