SB2019013130 - Cross-site scripting in Mandriva Enterprise Server

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18940)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing data passed via an arbitrary parameter=[XSS] in the query string. A remote unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to supply malicious HTML or JavaScript code to a vulnerable web application, which is then reflected back to the victim and executed by the web browser. NOTE: this product is discontinued. 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.

Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150262/Netscape-Enterprise-3.63-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Nov/31