Adobe ColdFusion is vulnerable to cross-site scripting via the logviewer directory

Overview

Adobe ColdFusion 10 update 11 and possibly earlier versions contain a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) (CWE-79) vulnerability.

Description

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (‘Cross-site Scripting’)

Adobe ColdFusion 10 update 11 and possibly earlier versions contains a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker can inject arbitrary HTML content (including script) within the /logviewer/ directory.

The vulnerability requires using a relative path, although there is no directory traversal vulnerability.

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Impact

A remote unauthenticated attacker can conduct a cross-site scripting attack, which may be used to result in information leakage, privilege escalation, and/or denial of service.

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Solution

Adobe has posted an advisory which advises users to apply the appropriate hotfix to their version of ColdFusion to address these vulnerabilities.

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Vendor Information

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Adobe Affected

Notified: May 22, 2013 Updated: July 23, 2013

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

We are not aware of further vendor information regarding this vulnerability.

CVSS Metrics

Group	Score	Vector
Base	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Temporal	3.4	E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
Environmental	0.9	CDP:ND/TD:L/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

• <http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html&gt;
• <http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family.html&gt;
• <http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-27.html&gt;

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tenable Network Security for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Adam Rauf.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2013-5326
Date Public:	2013-11-15 Date First Published: