4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
65.5%
According to its version number, the Splunk Web hosted on the remote web server is affected by an unspecified cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTML and script code into a user’s browser to be executed within the security context of the affected site.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(73246);
script_version("1.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-2578");
script_bugtraq_id(66453);
script_name(english:"Splunk < 5.0.8 Unspecified XSS");
script_summary(english:"Checks the version of Splunk.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server contains an application that is affected by a
cross-site scripting vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its version number, the Splunk Web hosted on the remote
web server is affected by an unspecified cross-site scripting
vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject
arbitrary HTML and script code into a user's browser to be executed
within the security context of the affected site.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied
only on the application's self-reported version number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAKQX");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Splunk 5.0.8 or later.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(20, 74, 79, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 750, 751, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/03/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/03/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/03/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:splunk:splunk");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"CGI abuses : XSS");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_dependencies("splunkd_detect.nasl","splunk_web_detect.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 8089, 8000);
script_require_keys("installed_sw/Splunk");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");
include("install_func.inc");
app = "Splunk";
get_install_count(app_name:app, exit_if_zero:TRUE);
port = get_http_port(default:8000, embedded:TRUE);
install = get_single_install(
app_name : app,
port : port,
exit_if_unknown_ver : TRUE
);
dir = install['path'];
ver = install['version'];
install_url = build_url(qs:dir, port:port);
if (ver_compare(ver:ver,fix:"5.0.8",strict:FALSE) < 0)
{
set_kb_item(name:"www/"+port+"/XSS", value:TRUE);
if (report_verbosity > 0)
{
report =
'\n URL : ' +install_url+
'\n Installed version : ' +ver+
'\n Fixed version : 5.0.8\n';
security_warning(port:port, extra:report);
}
else security_warning(port);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_WEB_APP_NOT_AFFECTED, app, install_url, ver);