Cross-site scripting in phpLDAPadmin - CVE-2017-11107
Published: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32993
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-2017-11107
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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 the form, element, rdn, or container parameters in n htdocs/entry_chooser.php. 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.
Affected software
phpLDAPadmin
phpldapadmin (Alpine package)
phpldapadmin (Ubuntu package)
phpldapadmin
Fedora
Ubuntu
phpldapadmin (Alpine package)
phpldapadmin (Ubuntu package)
phpldapadmin
Fedora
Ubuntu
How to mitigate CVE-2017-11107
Install update from vendor's website.
phpLDAPadmin - update to 1.2.4
phpldapadmin (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 1.2.3-r4, 1.2.3-r5
phpldapadmin (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.2.2-6ubuntu1.1
phpldapadmin - addressed in versions 1.2.3-10.el6, 1.2.3-10.el7, 1.2.3-10.fc24, 1.2.3-10.fc25, 1.2.3-10.fc26
phpldapadmin (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 1.2.3-r4, 1.2.3-r5
phpldapadmin (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.2.2-6ubuntu1.1
phpldapadmin - addressed in versions 1.2.3-10.el6, 1.2.3-10.el7, 1.2.3-10.fc24, 1.2.3-10.fc25, 1.2.3-10.fc26