Cross-site scripting in Cisco Email Security Appliance - CVE-2016-1423

Vulnerability identifier: #VU1098

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1423

CWE-ID: CWE-79

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by incorrect filtration of input data. 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

Cisco Email Security Appliance
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
perl-Git
git
git-core
git-debuginfo
git-debugsource
git-core-debuginfo

Update to version 9.1.1-038, 9.7.2-047.

perl-Git - update to 2.35.3-150300.10.39.1
git - update to 2.35.3-150300.10.39.1
git-core - update to 2.35.3-150300.10.39.1
git-debuginfo - update to 2.35.3-150300.10.39.1
git-debugsource - update to 2.35.3-150300.10.39.1
git-core-debuginfo - update to 2.35.3-150300.10.39.1

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161026-esa4

• Cross-site scripting in Cisco Email Security Appliance
• SUSE update for git