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appscan.txt
Posted Sep 23, 2003
Authored by Rafael San Miguel Carrasco

AppScan 4 Audit Edition has a flaw where the Explore stage of the utility has an automatic scan option. When a reference to a URL in an href tag is made using a wrapper function instead of directly calling window.open or document.location javascript functions, AppScan will not detect the link and the URL will not be tested against any attack.

tags | advisory, javascript
SHA-256 | 738c67afd76910eef51c248ffef68d21df6238a1d7277ac9314af039a2a5aabe

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"AppScan 4.0 Audit Edition, the market leading application vulnerability assessment
tool, accurately detects security vulnerabilities automatically as an integrated
component of an enterprise security process review."

AppScan 4 have a flaw regarding the way the "Explore stage" is implemented
when the "Automatic Scan" is selected.
When a reference to a URL in a "a href" tag is made using a wrapper function
instead of directly calling "window.open" or "document.location" javascript
functions, AppScan will not detect the link and the URL will not be tested
against any attack.

As this is a common way to reference URLs (it enables the coder to do some
stuff before the window is actually opened), many pages of a website may not
be analyzed by AppScan, hiding potential vulnerabilities to the user.
An attacker with this knowledge would scan first pages referenced in the way
explained above, speeding up the vulnerability discovery process.

Here is an example of a link that will be ignored by AppScan:

<script>
function openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features)
{ window.open(theURL,winName,features); }
</script>

<a href="#" onClick="openWindow('bla.html','','');">
<img src="bla.jpg"></a>

I contacted SanctumInc, and this was the solution proposed:

"We are aware of this limitation and in case of extensive usage of Java Script
we recommend the user to choose "Interactive" Scan Type and explore the site
manually. If you do so, just like a normal user will explore your site, AppScan
will test the encapsulated links."


Rafael San Miguel Carrasco
División de Infraestructura y Seguridad en Redes IP
Telefónica I+D

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