Cross-site scripting in BIG-IP - CVE-2018-5521
Published: June 25, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13462
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-2018-5521
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error when processing GeoIP lookup responses. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially 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.
Affected software
BIG-IP
Fedora
python-setuptools
Fedora
python-setuptools
How to mitigate CVE-2018-5521
Install update from vendor's website.
BIG-IP - addressed in versions 11.5.6, 11.6.3.2, 12.1.3.2
python-setuptools - update to 67.7.2-8.fc39
python-setuptools - update to 67.7.2-8.fc39