Advanced Research Security Auditor Research Assistant Service Banner HTML Injection Vulnerability

BID:9241

Info

Advanced Research Security Auditor Research Assistant Service Banner HTML Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9241
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 17 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 17 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to "Thomas M. Payerle" <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Dan Farmer SATAN 1.1.1
Advanced Research Security Auditor's Research Assistant 4.2.7
Advanced Research Security Auditor's Research Assistant 4.2.6
Advanced Research Security Auditor's Research Assistant 4.2.5
Advanced Research Security Auditor's Research Assistant 4.2.1
Not Vulnerable: Advanced Research Security Auditor's Research Assistant 5.0

Discussion

Advanced Research Security Auditor Research Assistant Service Banner HTML Injection Vulnerability

Advanced Research SARA has been reported prone to a HTML injection vulnerability. The issue has been reported to exist due to a lack of sufficient sanitization performed on banner data enumerated from remote services.

Successful exploitation of this issue may allow a remote attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials. Other attacks are possible as well. The impact of this issue may be exaggerated because the affected software invokes the web browser, and the software must be run as the root user.

Exploit / POC

Advanced Research Security Auditor Research Assistant Service Banner HTML Injection Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits 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]>.

Solution / Fix

Advanced Research Security Auditor Research Assistant Service Banner HTML Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has reportedly released an update to address this issue:


Advanced Research Security Auditor's Research Assistant 4.2.1

Advanced Research Security Auditor's Research Assistant 4.2.5

Advanced Research Security Auditor's Research Assistant 4.2.6

Advanced Research Security Auditor's Research Assistant 4.2.7

References

Advanced Research Security Auditor Research Assistant Service Banner HTML Injection Vulnerability

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