Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-5031 - Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN
trustwave
opensuse
CWE-79
nessus
NVD
Published: 2012-07-22
Updated: 2021-02-12

Summary

ModSecurity before 2.5.11 treats request parameter values containing single quotes as files, which allows remote attackers to bypass filtering rules and perform other attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a single quote in a request parameter in the Content-Disposition field of a request with a multipart/form-data Content-Type header.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Trustwave
59
OS
Opensuse
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • 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.
  • Embedding Scripts in Non-Script Elements
    This attack is a form of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) where malicious scripts are embedded in elements that are not expected to host scripts such as image tags (<img>), comments in XML documents (< !-CDATA->), etc. These tags may not be subject to the same input validation, output validation, and other content filtering and checking routines, so this can create an opportunity for an attacker to tunnel through the application's elements and launch a XSS attack through other elements. As with all remote attacks, it is important to differentiate the ability to launch an attack (such as probing an internal network for unpatched servers) and the ability of the remote attacker to collect and interpret the output of said attack.
  • Embedding Scripts within Scripts
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts. The attacker leverages this capability to execute scripts to execute his/her own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute. The attacker must have the ability to inject script into script that is likely to be executed. If this is done, then the attacker can potentially launch a variety of probes and attacks against the web server's local environment, in many cases the so-called DMZ, back end resources the web server can communicate with, and other hosts. With the proliferation of intermediaries, such as Web App Firewalls, network devices, and even printers having JVMs and Web servers, there are many locales where an attacker can inject malicious scripts. Since this attack pattern defines scripts within scripts, there are likely privileges to execute said attack on the host. Of course, these attacks are not solely limited to the server side, client side scripts like Ajax and client side JavaScript can contain malicious scripts as well. In general all that is required is for there to be sufficient privileges to execute a script, but not protected against writing.
  • Cross-Site Scripting in Error Pages
    An attacker distributes a link (or possibly some other query structure) with a request to a third party web server that is malformed and also contains a block of exploit code in order to have the exploit become live code in the resulting error page. When the third party web server receives the crafted request and notes the error it then creates an error message that echoes the malformed message, including the exploit. Doing this converts the exploit portion of the message into to valid language elements that are executed by the viewing browser. When a victim executes the query provided by the attacker the infected error message error message is returned including the exploit code which then runs in the victim's browser. XSS can result in execution of code as well as data leakage (e.g. session cookies can be sent to the attacker). This type of attack is especially dangerous since the exploit appears to come from the third party web server, who the victim may trust and hence be more vulnerable to deception.
  • Cross-Site Scripting Using Alternate Syntax
    The attacker uses alternate forms of keywords or commands that result in the same action as the primary form but which may not be caught by filters. For example, many keywords are processed in a case insensitive manner. If the site's web filtering algorithm does not convert all tags into a consistent case before the comparison with forbidden keywords it is possible to bypass filters (e.g., incomplete black lists) by using an alternate case structure. For example, the "script" tag using the alternate forms of "Script" or "ScRiPt" may bypass filters where "script" is the only form tested. Other variants using different syntax representations are also possible as well as using pollution meta-characters or entities that are eventually ignored by the rendering engine. The attack can result in the execution of otherwise prohibited functionality.

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2013-641.NASL
    description - complete overhaul of this package, with update to 2.7.5. - ruleset update to 2.2.8-0-g0f07cbb. - new configuration framework private to mod_security2: /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf loads /usr/share/apache2-mod_security2/rules/modsecurity_crs_1 0_setup.conf, then /etc/apache2/mod_security2.d/*.conf , as set up based on advice in /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf Your configuration starting point is /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf - !!! Please note that mod_unique_id is needed for mod_security2 to run! - modsecurity-apache_2.7.5-build_fix_pcre.diff changes erroneaous linker parameter, preventing rpath in shared object. - fixes contained for the following bugs : - CVE-2009-5031, CVE-2012-2751 [bnc#768293] request parameter handling - [bnc#768293] multi-part bypass, minor threat - CVE-2013-1915 [bnc#813190] XML external entity vulnerability - CVE-2012-4528 [bnc#789393] rule bypass - CVE-2013-2765 [bnc#822664] NULL pointer dereference crash - new from 2.5.9 to 2.7.5, only major changes : - GPLv2 replaced by Apache License v2 - rules are not part of the source tarball any longer, but maintaned upstream externally, and included in this package. - documentation was externalized to a wiki. Package contains the FAQ and the reference manual in html form. - renamed the term
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2014-06-13
    plugin id75113
    published2014-06-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75113
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : apache2-mod_security2 (openSUSE-SU-2013:1331-1)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2013-641.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(75113);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-5031", "CVE-2012-2751", "CVE-2012-4528", "CVE-2013-1915", "CVE-2013-2765");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : apache2-mod_security2 (openSUSE-SU-2013:1331-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2013-641 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"  - complete overhaul of this package, with update to 2.7.5.

  - ruleset update to 2.2.8-0-g0f07cbb.

  - new configuration framework private to mod_security2:
    /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf loads
    /usr/share/apache2-mod_security2/rules/modsecurity_crs_1
    0_setup.conf, then /etc/apache2/mod_security2.d/*.conf ,
    as set up based on advice in
    /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf Your
    configuration starting point is
    /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf

  - !!! Please note that mod_unique_id is needed for
    mod_security2 to run!

  - modsecurity-apache_2.7.5-build_fix_pcre.diff changes
    erroneaous linker parameter, preventing rpath in shared
    object.

  - fixes contained for the following bugs :

  - CVE-2009-5031, CVE-2012-2751 [bnc#768293] request
    parameter handling

  - [bnc#768293] multi-part bypass, minor threat

  - CVE-2013-1915 [bnc#813190] XML external entity
    vulnerability

  - CVE-2012-4528 [bnc#789393] rule bypass

  - CVE-2013-2765 [bnc#822664] NULL pointer dereference
    crash

  - new from 2.5.9 to 2.7.5, only major changes :

  - GPLv2 replaced by Apache License v2

  - rules are not part of the source tarball any longer, but
    maintaned upstream externally, and included in this
    package.

  - documentation was externalized to a wiki. Package
    contains the FAQ and the reference manual in html form.

  - renamed the term 'Encryption' in directives that
    actually refer to hashes. See CHANGES file for more
    details.

  - new directive SecXmlExternalEntity, default off

  - byte conversion issues on s390x when logging fixed.

  - many small issues fixed that were discovered by a
    Coverity scanner

  - updated reference manual

  - wrong time calculation when logging for some timezones
    fixed.

  - replaced time-measuring mechanism with finer granularity
    for measured request/answer phases. (Stopwatch remains
    for compat.)

  - cookie parser memory leak fix

  - parsing of quoted strings in multipart
    Content-Disposition headers fixed.

  - SDBM deadlock fix

  - @rsub memory leak fix

  - cookie separator code improvements

  - build failure fixes

  - compile time option --enable-htaccess-config (set)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768293"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789393"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813190"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822664"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00020.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected apache2-mod_security2 packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-mod_security2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-mod_security2-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-mod_security2-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/08/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/06/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE12\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "12.3", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"apache2-mod_security2-2.7.5-2.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"apache2-mod_security2-debuginfo-2.7.5-2.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"apache2-mod_security2-debugsource-2.7.5-2.4.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "apache2-mod_security2 / apache2-mod_security2-debuginfo / etc");
}
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2013-640.NASL
    description - complete overhaul of this package, with update to 2.7.5. - ruleset update to 2.2.8-0-g0f07cbb. - new configuration framework private to mod_security2: /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf loads /usr/share/apache2-mod_security2/rules/modsecurity_crs_1 0_setup.conf, then /etc/apache2/mod_security2.d/*.conf , as set up based on advice in /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf Your configuration starting point is /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf - !!! Please note that mod_unique_id is needed for mod_security2 to run! - modsecurity-apache_2.7.5-build_fix_pcre.diff changes erroneaous linker parameter, preventing rpath in shared object. - fixes contained for the following bugs : - CVE-2009-5031, CVE-2012-2751 [bnc#768293] request parameter handling - [bnc#768293] multi-part bypass, minor threat - CVE-2013-1915 [bnc#813190] XML external entity vulnerability - CVE-2012-4528 [bnc#789393] rule bypass - CVE-2013-2765 [bnc#822664] NULL pointer dereference crash - new from 2.5.9 to 2.7.5, only major changes : - GPLv2 replaced by Apache License v2 - rules are not part of the source tarball any longer, but maintaned upstream externally, and included in this package. - documentation was externalized to a wiki. Package contains the FAQ and the reference manual in html form. - renamed the term
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2014-06-13
    plugin id75112
    published2014-06-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75112
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : apache2-mod_security2 (openSUSE-SU-2013:1336-1)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2013-640.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(75112);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-5031", "CVE-2012-2751", "CVE-2012-4528", "CVE-2013-1915", "CVE-2013-2765");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : apache2-mod_security2 (openSUSE-SU-2013:1336-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2013-640 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"  - complete overhaul of this package, with update to 2.7.5.

  - ruleset update to 2.2.8-0-g0f07cbb. 

  - new configuration framework private to mod_security2:
    /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf loads
    /usr/share/apache2-mod_security2/rules/modsecurity_crs_1
    0_setup.conf, then /etc/apache2/mod_security2.d/*.conf ,
    as set up based on advice in
    /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf Your
    configuration starting point is
    /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf

  - !!! Please note that mod_unique_id is needed for
    mod_security2 to run!

  - modsecurity-apache_2.7.5-build_fix_pcre.diff changes
    erroneaous linker parameter, preventing rpath in shared
    object.

  - fixes contained for the following bugs :

  - CVE-2009-5031, CVE-2012-2751 [bnc#768293] request
    parameter handling

  - [bnc#768293] multi-part bypass, minor threat

  - CVE-2013-1915 [bnc#813190] XML external entity
    vulnerability

  - CVE-2012-4528 [bnc#789393] rule bypass

  - CVE-2013-2765 [bnc#822664] NULL pointer dereference
    crash

  - new from 2.5.9 to 2.7.5, only major changes :

  - GPLv2 replaced by Apache License v2

  - rules are not part of the source tarball any longer, but
    maintaned upstream externally, and included in this
    package.

  - documentation was externalized to a wiki. Package
    contains the FAQ and the reference manual in html form.

  - renamed the term 'Encryption' in directives that
    actually refer to hashes. See CHANGES file for more
    details.

  - new directive SecXmlExternalEntity, default off

  - byte conversion issues on s390x when logging fixed.

  - many small issues fixed that were discovered by a
    Coverity scanner

  - updated reference manual

  - wrong time calculation when logging for some timezones
    fixed.

  - replaced time-measuring mechanism with finer granularity
    for measured request/answer phases. (Stopwatch remains
    for compat.)

  - cookie parser memory leak fix

  - parsing of quoted strings in multipart
    Content-Disposition headers fixed.

  - SDBM deadlock fix

  - @rsub memory leak fix

  - cookie separator code improvements

  - build failure fixes

  - compile time option --enable-htaccess-config (set)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768293"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789393"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813190"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822664"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00025.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected apache2-mod_security2 packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-mod_security2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-mod_security2-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-mod_security2-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.2");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/08/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/06/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE12\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "12.2", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.2", reference:"apache2-mod_security2-2.7.5-14.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.2", reference:"apache2-mod_security2-debuginfo-2.7.5-14.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.2", reference:"apache2-mod_security2-debugsource-2.7.5-14.4.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "apache2-mod_security2 / apache2-mod_security2-debuginfo / etc");
}
  • NASL familySolaris Local Security Checks
    NASL idSOLARIS11_MODSECURITY_20140731.NASL
    descriptionThe remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates : - ModSecurity before 2.6.6, when used with PHP, does not properly handle single quotes not at the beginning of a request parameter value in the Content-Disposition field of a request with a multipart/form-data Content-Type header, which allows remote attackers to bypass filtering rules and perform other attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-5031. (CVE-2012-2751) - ModSecurity before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability. (CVE-2013-1915)
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id80704
    published2015-01-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/80704
    titleOracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : modsecurity (cve_2012_2751_improper_input)
  • NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
    NASL idMANDRIVA_MDVSA-2012-182.NASL
    descriptionMultiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in apache-mod_security : ModSecurity before 2.6.6, when used with PHP, does not properly handle single quotes not at the beginning of a request parameter value in the Content-Disposition field of a request with a multipart/form-data Content-Type header, which allows remote attackers to bypass filtering rules and perform other attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-5031 (CVE-2012-2751). ModSecurity <= 2.6.8 is vulnerable to multipart/invalid part ruleset bypass, this was fixed in 2.7.0 (released on2012-10-16) (CVE-2012-4528). The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id63331
    published2012-12-24
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63331
    titleMandriva Linux Security Advisory : apache-mod_security (MDVSA-2012:182)

References