Cross-site scripting in ActiveMQ - CVE-2014-8110
Published: February 12, 2015 / Updated: January 15, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40897
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8110
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Apache Foundation
Affected software:
ActiveMQ
ActiveMQ
Detailed vulnerability description
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the web based administration console in Apache ActiveMQ 5.x before 5.10.1 when processing unspecified vectors. 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-8110
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2014-8110-announcement.txt
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/427
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62649
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72511
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100724
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a859563f05fbe7c31916b3178c2697165bd9bbf5a65d1cf62aef27d2@%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E