Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-5791 - Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in ELOG Nonexistent File Download
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in elogd.c in ELOG 2.6.2 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via (1) the filename for downloading, which is not quoted in an error message by the send_file_direct function, and (2) the Type or Category values in a New entry, which is not properly handled in an error message by the submit_elog function.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 |
Nessus
NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks |
NASL id | DEBIAN_DSA-1242.NASL |
description | Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in elog, a web-based electronic logbook, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-5063 Tilman Koschnick discovered that log entry editing in HTML is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This update disables the vulnerable code. - CVE-2006-5790 Ulf Harnhammar of the Debian Security Audit Project discovered several format string vulnerabilities in elog, which may lead to execution of arbitrary code. - CVE-2006-5791 Ulf Harnhammar of the Debian Security Audit Project discovered cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the creation of new logbook entries. - CVE-2006-6318 Jayesh KS and Arun Kethipelly of OS2A discovered that elog performs insufficient error handling in config file parsing, which may lead to denial of service through a NULL pointer dereference. |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 23947 |
published | 2006-12-30 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/23947 |
title | Debian DSA-1242-1 : elog - several vulnerabilities |
code |
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References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392016
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22638
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23580
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1242
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20881
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20882
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4315
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29986