Vulnerabilities > CVE-2010-2536 - Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Adjam Rekonq

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE
network
adjam
CWE-79
nessus
NVD
Published: 2010-08-02
Updated: 2010-11-03

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in rekonq 0.5 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) a URL associated with a nonexistent domain name, related to webpage.cpp, aka a "universal XSS" issue; (2) unspecified vectors related to webview.cpp; and the about: views for (3) favorites, (4) bookmarks, (5) closed tabs, and (6) history.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Adjam
16

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 familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2010-12255.NASL
    descriptionFixes CVE-2010-2536 New upstream version with following changes: * improved adblock, automagically updating filter lists (+abp scheme support) * RSS support * new urlbar (tech preview): it
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id49090
    published2010-09-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/49090
    titleFedora 12 : rekonq-0.5.0-2.fc12 (2010-12255)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2010-12255.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(49090);
  script_version("1.9");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:31");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2010-2536");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2010-12255");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 12 : rekonq-0.5.0-2.fc12 (2010-12255)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Fixes CVE-2010-2536 New upstream version with following changes: *
improved adblock, automagically updating filter lists (+abp scheme
support) * RSS support * new urlbar (tech preview): it's just nice and
more will come.. * auto-scrolling * downloads history tracked * SSL
Info support * Bookmarks & history panels improvements * bugfixing &
users wishes

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620897"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/046939.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?5e13920e"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected rekonq package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rekonq");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/08/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/09/03");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

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

  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/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^12([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 12.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC12", reference:"rekonq-0.5.0-2.fc12")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "rekonq");
}
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2010-15874.NASL
    description - Mem leak fixed in the bar(s) - Bookmarklets support - No more focus stealing on external url calls - Chinese sites (right) encoding - OpenSearch suggestions localized - Fixed urlbar crash in disconnected mode - AdBlock performance improvements - UrlBar Improvements - Suggestions - History Review - zoom slide bar - apt scheme support - bookmarks improvements - smooth scrolling Fixes CVE-2010-2536 New upstream version with following changes : - improved adblock, automagically updating filter lists (+abp scheme support) - RSS support - new urlbar (tech preview): it
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id50006
    published2010-10-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/50006
    titleFedora 14 : rekonq-0.6.1-1.fc14 (2010-15874)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2010-15874.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(50006);
  script_version("1.11");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:31");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2010-2536");
  script_bugtraq_id(41914);
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2010-15874");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 14 : rekonq-0.6.1-1.fc14 (2010-15874)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"  - Mem leak fixed in the bar(s)

    - Bookmarklets support

    - No more focus stealing on external url calls

    - Chinese sites (right) encoding

    - OpenSearch suggestions localized

    - Fixed urlbar crash in disconnected mode

    - AdBlock performance improvements

    - UrlBar Improvements

    - Suggestions

    - History Review

    - zoom slide bar

    - apt scheme support

    - bookmarks improvements

    - smooth scrolling Fixes CVE-2010-2536

New upstream version with following changes :

  - improved adblock, automagically updating filter lists
    (+abp scheme support)

    - RSS support

    - new urlbar (tech preview): it's just nice and more
      will come..

    - auto-scrolling

    - downloads history tracked

    - SSL Info support

    - Bookmarks & history panels improvements

    - bugfixing & users wishes

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620897"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049406.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?65f36d09"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected rekonq package."
  );
  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:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rekonq");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/10/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/10/18");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

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

  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/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^14([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 14.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC14", reference:"rekonq-0.6.1-1.fc14")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "rekonq");
}
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2010-12271.NASL
    descriptionFixes CVE-2010-2536 New upstream version with following changes: * improved adblock, automagically updating filter lists (+abp scheme support) * RSS support * new urlbar (tech preview): it
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id49091
    published2010-09-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/49091
    titleFedora 13 : rekonq-0.5.0-2.fc13 (2010-12271)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2010-12271.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(49091);
  script_version("1.9");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:31");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2010-2536");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2010-12271");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 13 : rekonq-0.5.0-2.fc13 (2010-12271)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Fixes CVE-2010-2536 New upstream version with following changes: *
improved adblock, automagically updating filter lists (+abp scheme
support) * RSS support * new urlbar (tech preview): it's just nice and
more will come.. * auto-scrolling * downloads history tracked * SSL
Info support * Bookmarks & history panels improvements * bugfixing &
users wishes

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620897"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/046926.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?a99edba3"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected rekonq package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rekonq");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/08/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/09/03");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

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

  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/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^13([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 13.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC13", reference:"rekonq-0.5.0-2.fc13")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "rekonq");
}

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/92893/NDSA20100810.txt
idPACKETSTORM:92893
last seen2016-12-05
published2010-08-19
reporterTim Brown
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/92893/Rekonq-0.5-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
titleRekonq 0.5 Cross Site Scripting

References