Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-0241 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in SUN Java System Identity Manager 6.0/7.0/7.1

047910
CVSS 5.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
sun
CWE-20
nessus
NVD
Published: 2008-01-11
Updated: 2018-10-15

Summary

Open redirect vulnerability in /idm/user/login.jsp in Sun Java System Identity Manager 6.0 SP1 through SP3, 7.0, and 7.1 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the nextPage parameter.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Sun
5

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

NASL familyCGI abuses : XSS
NASL idSUN_IDM_XSS.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is running Sun Java System Identity Manager, a Java application for user provisioning and identity auditing in enterprise environments. The version of Identity Manager installed on the remote host fails to sanitize user-supplied input to various JSP scripts before using it to generate dynamic content. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to leverage these issues to inject arbitrary HTML or script code into a user
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id29926
published2008-01-11
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/29926
titleSun Java System Identity Manager Multiple XSS
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(29926);
  script_version("1.23");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2008-0239", "CVE-2008-0240", "CVE-2008-0241");
  script_bugtraq_id(27214);

  script_name(english:"Sun Java System Identity Manager Multiple XSS");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for XSS flaws in Identity Manager");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server contains an application that is affected by
multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities." );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is running Sun Java System Identity Manager, a Java
application for user provisioning and identity auditing in enterprise
environments. 

The version of Identity Manager installed on the remote host fails to
sanitize user-supplied input to various JSP scripts before using it to
generate dynamic content.  An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be
able to leverage these issues to inject arbitrary HTML or script code
into a user's browser to be executed within the security context of
the affected site. 

Known to be affected are the 'cntry' and 'lang' parameters of the
'login.jsp' script, the 'resultsForm' parameter of the
'account/findForSelect.jsp' script, the 'activeControl' parameter of
the 'user/main.jsp' script, the 'helpUrl' parameter of the
'help/index.jsp' script, and the 'nextPage' parameter of the
'user/login.jsp' script" );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr07-06" );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr07-07" );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr07-08" );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr07-09" );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr07-10" );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr07-12" );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486076" );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?9ebbdd8a");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to one of the versions of Sun Java System Identity Manager
listed in the vendor's advisory." );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_cwe_id(20, 79);
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "2008/01/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value: "2008/01/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2008/01/11");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:sun:java_system_identity_manager");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
  script_family(english:"CGI abuses : XSS");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("sun_idm_detect.nasl", "cross_site_scripting.nasl");
  script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 80, 8080);

  exit(0);
}


include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");
include("url_func.inc");


port = get_http_port(default:8080, embedded: 0);
if (get_kb_item("www/"+port+"/generic_xss")) exit(0);


# A simple alert.
xss = string("<script>alert('", SCRIPT_NAME, "')</script>");
exploit = string("-->", xss, "<!--");


# Test an install.
install = get_kb_item(string("www/", port, "/sun_idm"));
if (isnull(install)) exit(0);
matches = eregmatch(string:install, pattern:"^(.+) under (/.*)$");
if (!isnull(matches))
{
  dir = matches[2];

  w = http_send_recv3(method:"GET", 
    item:string(
      dir, "/login.jsp?",
      "lang=", exploit, "&",
      "cntry="
    ), 
    port:port
  );
  if (isnull(w)) exit(1, "The web server did not answer");
  res = w[2];

  # There's a problem if the display name uses our exploit.
  if (string("The local display name is: ", exploit, " -->") >< res)
  {
    security_warning(port);
    set_kb_item(name: 'www/'+port+'/XSS', value: TRUE);
    exit(0);
  }
}

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