Executive Summary



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Summary
Title CA Siteminder login.fcc form xss vulnerability
Informations
Name VU#713012 First vendor Publication 2011-12-07
Vendor VU-CERT Last vendor Modification 2011-12-09
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision M

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Vulnerability Note VU#713012

CA Siteminder login.fcc form xss vulnerability

Overview

CA Siteminder R6 SP6 CR7, R12 SP3 CR8 and possibly previous versions, are vulnerable to a reflective cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

I. Description

According to CA's website: "CA SiteMinder provides a centralized security management foundation that enables the secure use of the web to deliver applications and cloud services to customers, partners, and employees." CA Siteminder software fails to sanitize POST requests sent to the login.fcc form. As a result, stored and reflective cross site scripting (XSS) attacks can be conducted. An attacker can inject javascript code that will be run each time the specified webpage is accessed by inserting javascript code in the affected parameter. According to the reporter the login.fcc webpage and postpreservationdata parameter is affected by a reflective XSS vulnerability, postpreservationdata=fail&target="><script>alert(1)</script><"

II. Impact

An attacker with access to the CA Siteminder can conduct a cross site scripting attack, which could be used to result in information leakage, privilege escalation, and/or denial of service.

III. Solution

The vendor has confirmed that this vulnerability has been addressed in SiteMinder R6 SP6 CR8 and SiteMinder R12 SP3 CR9.

Restrict access

As a general good security practice, only allow connections from trusted hosts and networks. Note that restricting access does not prevent XSS or CSRF attacks since the attack comes as an HTTP request from a legitimate user's host. Restricting access would prevent an attacker from accessing a CA Siteminder using stolen credentials from a blocked network location.

Vendor Information

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
Computer AssociatesAffected2011-10-052011-12-09

References

http://www.ca.com/us/web-access-management.aspx

Credit

Thanks to Jon Passki of Aspect Security for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Michael Orlando.

Other Information

Date Public:2011-12-07
Date First Published:2011-12-07
Date Last Updated:2011-12-09
CERT Advisory: 
CVE-ID(s):CVE-2011-4054
NVD-ID(s):CVE-2011-4054
US-CERT Technical Alerts: 
Severity Metric:0.14
Document Revision:17

Original Source

Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713012

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 7
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2011-12-19 Name : CA SiteMinder 'target' Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
File : nvt/secpod_ca_siteminder_target_param_xss_vuln.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
77570 CA SiteMinder login.fcc target Parameter XSS

CA SiteMinder contains a flaw that allows a remote cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This flaw exists because the application does not validate the 'target' parameter upon submission to the login.fcc script when 'postpreservationdata' is set to fail. This may allow a user to create a specially crafted URL that would execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser within the trust relationship between their browser and the server.