Cross-site scripting in ActiveMQ - CVE-2013-1879

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Cross-site scripting in ActiveMQ - CVE-2013-1879

Published: July 20, 2013 / Updated: January 15, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU42708
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1879
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 in scheduled.jsp in Apache ActiveMQ 5.8.0 and earlier. 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.


Affected software

ActiveMQ
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM)
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

How to mitigate CVE-2013-1879

Install update from vendor's website.

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.15
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next - update to 9.7.2.7

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