Secunia Security Advisory - Dedi Dwianto has reported a vulnerability in Cerberus Helpdesk, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Cerberus Helpdesk "errorcode" Cross-Site Scripting
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15641
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15641/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of system information
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Cerberus Helpdesk 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/5227/
DESCRIPTION:
Dedi Dwianto has reported a vulnerability in Cerberus Helpdesk, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "errorcode" parameter in "index.php" isn't
properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of a vulnerable site.
An issue where the full path to certain scripts can be disclosed has
also been reported.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions 0.97.3 through 2.6.1.
SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in the CVS repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dedi Dwianto
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://echo.or.id/adv/adv15-theday-2005.txt
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