SB2019110622 - Red Hat update for squid:4
Published: November 6, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019110622
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13345)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via the the "user_name" and "auth" parameters to the cachemgr.cgi web module. 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.
Example:
http://[host]/cgi-bin/cachemgr.cgi?host=localhost&port=3128&user_name=admin&operation=authenticate&auth=bG9jYWxob3N0fDE1NTg5NTYzNzJ8YWRtIj48c2NyaXB0PmFsZXJ0KCdYU1MnKTwvc2NyaXB0PmlufGRzZGFkYWE=
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.