Secunia Security Advisory - putosoft softputo has reported a vulnerability in Oracle Portal, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Oracle Portal HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23461
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23461/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Oracle Application Server 10g
http://secunia.com/product/3190/
DESCRIPTION:
putosoft softputo has reported a vulnerability in Oracle Portal,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site
scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "enc" parameter in /webapp/jsp/calendar.jsp is
not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be
exploited to insert arbitrary HTTP headers, which are included in the
response to the sender.
SOLUTION:
Filter malicious characters or character sequences via a web proxy.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
putosoft softputo
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-December/051380.html
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