Cross-site scripting in Swift - CVE-2014-3497

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Cross-site scripting in Swift - CVE-2014-3497

Published: July 3, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41499
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-2014-3497
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Apple Inc.
Affected software:
Swift

Detailed vulnerability description

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in OpenStack Swift 1.11.0 through 1.13.1 when processing WWW-Authenticate header. 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-2014-3497

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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