Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-0716 - Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in IBM Websphere Application Server
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Administration Console in IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 before 7.0.0.23 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerable Configurations
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 family Web Servers NASL id WEBSPHERE_8_0_0_3.NASL description IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 before Fix Pack 3 appears to be running on the remote host and is potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Unspecified cross-site scripting issues exist related to the administrative console. (PM52274, PM53132) - An issue related to the weak randomization of Java hash data structures can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service with maliciously crafted POST requests. (PM53930) - An unspecified error exists related to WS-Security enabled JAX-RPC applications. (PM45181) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 59505 published 2012-06-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59505 title IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 < Fix Pack 3 Multiple Vulnerabilities code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(59505); script_version("1.11"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/12/04"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2011-1377", "CVE-2012-0193", "CVE-2012-0716", "CVE-2012-0720" ); script_bugtraq_id( 50310, 51441, 52721, 52722 ); script_name(english:"IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 < Fix Pack 3 Multiple Vulnerabilities"); script_summary(english:"Reads the version number from the SOAP port"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote application server may be affected by multiple vulnerabilities."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 before Fix Pack 3 appears to be running on the remote host and is potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Unspecified cross-site scripting issues exist related to the administrative console. (PM52274, PM53132) - An issue related to the weak randomization of Java hash data structures can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service with maliciously crafted POST requests. (PM53930) - An unspecified error exists related to WS-Security enabled JAX-RPC applications. (PM45181)"); # https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/PSIRT/entry/potential_security_vulnerability_when_using_web_based_applications_on_ibm_websphere_application_server_due_to_java_hashtable_implementation_vulnerability_cve_2012_0193?lang=en_us script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ca3789f7"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21577532"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21589257"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Apply Fix Pack 3 for version 8.0 (8.0.0.3) or later."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2011-1377"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_cwe_id(20, 74, 79, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 750, 751, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2012/05/16"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/05/16"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/06/14"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:ibm:websphere_application_server"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"Web Servers"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("websphere_detect.nasl"); script_require_keys("www/WebSphere"); script_require_ports("Services/www", 8880, 8881); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); include("http.inc"); port = get_http_port(default:8880, embedded:0); version = get_kb_item_or_exit("www/WebSphere/"+port+"/version"); if (version =~ "^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?$") exit(1, "Failed to extract a granular version from the IBM WebSphere Application Server instance listening on port " + port + "."); ver = split(version, sep:'.', keep:FALSE); for (i=0; i<max_index(ver); i++) ver[i] = int(ver[i]); if (ver[0] == 8 && ver[1] == 0 && ver[2] == 0 && ver[3] < 3) { set_kb_item(name:'www/'+port+'/XSS', value:TRUE); if (report_verbosity > 0) { source = get_kb_item_or_exit("www/WebSphere/"+port+"/source"); report = '\n Version source : ' + source + '\n Installed version : ' + version + '\n Fixed version : 8.0.0.3' + '\n'; security_hole(port:port, extra:report); } else security_hole(port); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_LISTEN_NOT_VULN, "WebSphere", port, version);
NASL family Web Servers NASL id WEBSPHERE_6_1_0_43.NASL description IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 before Fix Pack 43 appears to be running on the remote host. As such, it is potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An unspecified error exists related to WS-Security enabled JAX-RPC applications. (PM45181) - Insecure file permissions are applied to the files in the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 58594 published 2012-04-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/58594 title IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 < 6.1.0.43 Multiple Vulnerabilities code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(58594); script_version("1.10"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/08/06 14:03:16"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2011-1376", "CVE-2011-1377", "CVE-2011-4889", "CVE-2012-0193", "CVE-2012-0716", "CVE-2012-0717", "CVE-2012-0720" ); script_bugtraq_id( 50310, 51420, 51441, 52250, 52721, 52722, 52723, 52724 ); script_name(english:"IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 < 6.1.0.43 Multiple Vulnerabilities"); script_summary(english:"Reads the version number from the SOAP port"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote application server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 before Fix Pack 43 appears to be running on the remote host. As such, it is potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An unspecified error exists related to WS-Security enabled JAX-RPC applications. (PM45181) - Insecure file permissions are applied to the files in the '$WAS_HOME/systemapps/isclite.ear' and '$WAS_HOME/bin/client_ffdc' directories. These permissions can allow a local attacker read or write files in those directories. Note this issue only affects the application on the IBM i operating system. (PM49712) - An error exists in the class 'javax.naming.directory.AttributeInUseException' and can allow old passwords to still provide access. This error is triggered when passwords are updated by using IBM Tivoli Directory Server. (PM52049) - Unspecified cross-site scripting issues exist related to the administrative console. (PM52274, PM53132) - SSL client certificate authentication can be bypassed when all of the following are true (PM52351) : - SSL is enabled with 'SSLEnable' - SSL client authentication is enabled with 'SSLClientAuth required_reset'. This is not enabled by default. Also note, 'SSLClientAuth required' is not affected - SSLv2 has not been disabled with 'SSLProtocolDisable SSLv2' - 'SSLClientAuthRequire' is not enabled - An issue related to the weak randomization of Java hash data structures can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service with maliciously crafted POST requests. (PM53930)" ); # https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/PSIRT/entry/potential_security_vulnerability_when_using_web_based_applications_on_ibm_websphere_application_server_due_to_java_hashtable_implementation_vulnerability_cve_2012_0193?lang=en_us script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ca3789f7"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21404665"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27009778"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21587015"); # PM53930 Alert script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21577532"); # ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/websphere/appserv/support/fixes/PM53930/readme.txt script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?609dea34"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007951#61043"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "If using WebSphere Application Server, apply Fix Pack 43 (6.1.0.43) or later. Otherwise, if using embedded WebSphere Application Server packaged with Tivoli Directory Server, apply the latest recommended eWAS fix pack."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); 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_cwe_id(20, 74, 79, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 750, 751, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2011/10/19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/03/19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/04/04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:ibm:websphere_application_server"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"Web Servers"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_dependencies("websphere_detect.nasl"); script_require_ports("Services/www", 8880, 8881); script_require_keys("www/WebSphere"); exit(0); } include("global_settings.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); include("http.inc"); port = get_http_port(default:8880, embedded:FALSE); version = get_kb_item_or_exit("www/WebSphere/"+port+"/version"); if (version =~ "^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?$") exit(1, "Failed to extract a granular version from the IBM WebSphere Application Server instance listening on port " + port + "."); ver = split(version, sep:'.', keep:FALSE); for (i=0; i<max_index(ver); i++) ver[i] = int(ver[i]); if (ver[0] == 6 && ver[1] == 1 && ver[2] == 0 && ver[3] < 43) { set_kb_item(name:'www/'+port+'/XSS', value:TRUE); if (report_verbosity > 0) { source = get_kb_item_or_exit("www/WebSphere/"+port+"/source"); report = '\n Source : ' + source + '\n Installed version : ' + version + '\n Fixed version : 6.1.0.43' + '\n'; security_warning(port:port, extra:report); } else security_warning(port); exit(0); } else exit(0, "The WebSphere Application Server "+version+" instance listening on port "+port+" is not affected.");
NASL family Web Servers NASL id WEBSPHERE_7_0_0_23.NASL description IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 before Fix Pack 23 appears to be running on the remote host. As such, it is potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A security exposure when using WS-Security could result in a user gaining elevated privileges in applications using JAX-RPC. (PM45181 / CVE-2011-1377) - SSL client certificate authentication can be bypassed when all of the following are true (PM52351) : - SSL is enabled with last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 59728 published 2012-06-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59728 title IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 < Fix Pack 23 Multiple Vulnerabilities