Cross-site scripting in Fedoraproject products - CVE-2013-4168
Published: November 1, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU35119
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4168
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: oss.oetiker.ch
Debian
Fedoraproject
Debian
Fedoraproject
Affected software:
smokeping
Debian Linux
Fedora
smokeping
Debian Linux
Fedora
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in SmokePing 2. 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4168
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113987.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/114008.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/25/8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4168
- https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/commit/bad9f9c28f0939b269f90072aa4cf41f20f15563
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4168