SB2013110503 - Cross-site scripting in LDAP Account Manager

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4453)

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in templates/login.php in LDAP Account Manager (LAM) 4.3 and 4.2.1 when processing language parameter. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=726976
• http://osvdb.org/98828
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/149
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55413
• http://sourceforge.net/p/lam/bugs/156
• http://www.rusty-ice.de/advisory/advisory_2013001.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88203