SB2014111401 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Direct Web Remoting

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5326)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in 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.

2) XXE attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5325)

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform XXE attack on the target system.

The weakness exists due to insufficient validation for external entities. A remote attacker can supply DOM data containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, perform XXE attack and gain access to potentially sensitive information.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2014/JVNDB-2014-000118.html
• https://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2014/JVNDB-2014-000117.html