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Message-ID: <4ECAC75A.9090402@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:49:14 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Henri Salo <henri@...v.fi>, advisories@...itunasecurity.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: XSS vulnerability in Joomla 1.6.3
On 11/21/2011 02:39 PM, Henri Salo wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 02:20:00PM -0700, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> On 11/21/2011 11:01 AM, Henri Salo wrote:
>>> Can we get CVE-identifier assigned for this issue, thank you?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Henri Salo
>>>
>>> ----- Forwarded message from Netsparker Advisories <advisories@...itunasecurity.com> -----
>>>
>>> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:32:12 +0200
>>> From: Netsparker Advisories <advisories@...itunasecurity.com>
>>> To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
>>> Subject: [Full-disclosure] XSS vulnerability in Joomla 1.6.3
>>>
>>> Information
>>> --------------------
>>> Name : XSS vulnerability in Joomla 1.6.3.
>>> Software : All 1.6.x installs prior to and including 1.6.3 are affected.
>>> Vendor Hompeage : http://www.joomla.org
>>> Vulnerability Type : Cross-Site Scripting
>>> Severity : High
>>> Researcher : Mesut Timur <mesut [at] mavitunasecurity [dot] com>
>>> Advisory Reference : NS-11-009
>>>
>>> Description
>>> ------------------
>>> Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which
>>> enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many
>>> aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla
>>> the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is
>>> an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
>>>
>>> Details
>>> -------------------
>>> Joomla is affected by a XSS vulnerability in various administrator
>>> screens. All 1.6.x installs prior to and including 1.6.3 are affected.
>>> You can read the full article about Cross-Site Scripting
>>> vulnerabilities from here :
>>> http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/crosssite-scripting-xss/
>>>
>>> Solution
>>> -------------------
>>> Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.6.4 or later).
>>>
>>> Credits
>>> -------------------
>>> It has been discovered on testing of Netsparker, Web Application
>>> Security Scanner - http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/
>>>
>>> References
>>> -------------------
>>> 1. Vendor URL: http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/349-20110601-xss-vulnerabilities.html
>>> 2. MSL Advisory Link :
>>> http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-vulnerability-in-joomla-163/
>>> 3. Netsparker Advisories :
>>> http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/
>>>
>>> About Netsparker
>>> -------------------
>>> Netsparker® can find and report security issues such as SQL Injection
>>> and Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in all web applications regardless of
>>> the platform and the technology they are built on. Netsparker's unique
>>> detection and exploitation techniques allows it to be dead accurate in
>>> reporting hence it's the first and the only False Positive Free web
>>> application security scanner.
>>>
>> Can you confirm that this is a different issue from CVE-2011-2708 and
>> CVE-2011-3595?
>>
>> --
>>
>> -Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team
> CVE-2011-2708 and CVE-2011-2710 are both about 20110701 XSS vulnerability: http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/357-20110701-xss-vulnerability.html and I have already contacted MITRE twice to get another one marked as obsolete.
>
> This new is about: 20110601 XSS Vulnerabilities: http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/349-20110601-xss-vulnerabilities.html
>
> Sorry, but I don't know where to find SVN/GIT/CVS logs.
>
> Best regards,
> Henri Salo
Please use CVE-2011-4332 for this issue.
--
-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team
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