SB2019110117 - Cross-site scripting in oss.oetiker.ch smokeping
Published: November 1, 2019 Updated: August 8, 2020
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4168)
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.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.
References
- 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