Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-8936 - Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Squidguard
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
LOW Availability impact
NONE Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in squidGuard.cgi in squidGuard before 1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a blocked site link.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 |
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 SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-2510-1.NASL description squidGuard was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2015-8936: Reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability because of insufficient escaping (bsc#985612). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 94040 published 2016-10-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94040 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : squidGuard (SUSE-SU-2016:2510-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2016:2510-1. # The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(94040); script_version("2.6"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/11 11:22:14"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8936"); script_name(english:"SUSE SLES11 Security Update : squidGuard (SUSE-SU-2016:2510-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "squidGuard was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2015-8936: Reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability because of insufficient escaping (bsc#985612). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985612" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8936/" ); # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20162510-1/ script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?955dc0b7" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product : SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-squidGuard-12783=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-squidGuard-12783=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'." ); 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_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/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:novell:suse_linux:squidGuard"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:squidGuard-doc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/02/09"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/10/12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/10/13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 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/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/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/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES11)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLES11", "SUSE " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu); sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel"); if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0"; if (os_ver == "SLES11" && (! preg(pattern:"^(4)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES11 SP4", os_ver + " SP" + sp); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"squidGuard-1.4-13.10.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"squidGuard-doc-1.4-13.10.1")) flag++; if (flag) { set_kb_item(name:'www/0/XSS', value:TRUE); 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, "squidGuard"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-1210.NASL description squidGuard was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2015-8936: Reflected cross site scripting vulnerability because of insufficient escaping (bsc#985612). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-10-24 plugin id 94218 published 2016-10-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94218 title openSUSE Security Update : squidGuard (openSUSE-2016-1210) 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-2016-1210. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(94218); script_version("2.4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8936"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : squidGuard (openSUSE-2016-1210)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2016-1210 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "squidGuard was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2015-8936: Reflected cross site scripting vulnerability because of insufficient escaping (bsc#985612). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=985612" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected squidGuard packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:squidGuard"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:squidGuard-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:squidGuard-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/10/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/10/24"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); 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 !~ "^(SUSE42\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.1", 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:"SUSE42.1", reference:"squidGuard-1.4-3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"squidGuard-debuginfo-1.4-3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"squidGuard-debugsource-1.4-3.1") ) 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, "squidGuard / squidGuard-debuginfo / squidGuard-debugsource"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-FBB5A65729.NASL description Unit file fix. ---- http://www.squidguard.org/Downloads/Patches/1.4/Readme.Patch-20150201 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-07-15 plugin id 92307 published 2016-07-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92307 title Fedora 22 : squidGuard (2016-fbb5a65729) 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 FEDORA-2016-fbb5a65729. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(92307); script_version("2.5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8936"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2016-fbb5a65729"); script_name(english:"Fedora 22 : squidGuard (2016-fbb5a65729)"); 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: "Unit file fix. ---- http://www.squidguard.org/Downloads/Patches/1.4/Readme.Patch-20150201 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.squidguard.org/Downloads/Patches/1.4/Readme.Patch-20150201" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-fbb5a65729" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected squidGuard package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:squidGuard"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/02/09"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/06/30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/07/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 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 = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^22([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 22", "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:"FC22", reference:"squidGuard-1.4-26.fc22")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "squidGuard"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2017-1411-1.NASL description squidGuard was updated to fix one security issue : - CVE-2015-8936: Reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability because of insufficient escaping (bsc#985612). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 100459 published 2017-05-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100459 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : squidGuard (SUSE-SU-2017:1411-1) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-8B19472A3C.NASL description Unit file fix. ---- http://www.squidguard.org/Downloads/Patches/1.4/Readme.Patch-20150201 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-07-15 plugin id 92266 published 2016-07-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92266 title Fedora 24 : squidGuard (2016-8b19472a3c) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-524.NASL description It was discovered that there was a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in squidguard, a filter and redirector plugin for Squid. For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2016-06-23 plugin id 91771 published 2016-06-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91771 title Debian DLA-524-1 : squidguard security update NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-F8A01AA629.NASL description Unit file fix. ---- http://www.squidguard.org/Downloads/Patches/1.4/Readme.Patch-20150201 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-07-15 plugin id 92305 published 2016-07-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92305 title Fedora 23 : squidGuard (2016-f8a01aa629) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-2511-1.NASL description squidGuard was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2015-8936: Reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability because of insufficient escaping (bsc#985612). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 94041 published 2016-10-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94041 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : squidGuard (SUSE-SU-2016:2511-1)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/20/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/20/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/20/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/20/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91305
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91305
- http://www.squidguard.org/Downloads/CHANGELOG
- http://www.squidguard.org/Downloads/CHANGELOG
- http://www.squidguard.org/Downloads/Patches/1.4/Readme.Patch-20150201
- http://www.squidguard.org/Downloads/Patches/1.4/Readme.Patch-20150201