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secunia-akamaixss.txt

secunia-akamaixss.txt
Posted Jun 6, 2008
Authored by Dyon Balding | Site secunia.com

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in the Red Swoosh client which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks and compromise a user's system. Versions 3322 and below are affected.

tags | advisory, xss, csrf
advisories | CVE-2008-1106
SHA-256 | 4c1c94e64ef56ec7d276524f46e13d42871504c8a3f4fc2492eee724c354c6dc

secunia-akamaixss.txt

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Secunia Research 06/06/2008

- Akamai Red Swoosh Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10

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1) Affected Software

Akamai Red Swoosh Client version 3322.

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"Red Swoosh is distributed networking software which greatly enhances
the downloads and video streams you get from websites that support
Red Swoosh technology. The Red Swoosh client handles the caching,
reflecting and sharing of files delivered to you through the Swoosh
network.".

Product Link:
http://www.akamai.com/html/redswoosh/overview.html

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in the Red Swoosh
client which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site request forgery attacks and compromise a user's system.

The Red Swoosh client implements a web server listening on port
9421/TCP on the loopback interface for management commands.
Authorisation is restricted based on the HTTP "referer" header.
Requests with a "referer" header containing one of a number of
domains or no "referer" are fully authorised. By manipulating
the HTTP "referer", a malicious web page can cause files from
arbitrary URLs to be downloaded and executed.

The Red Swoosh client can be installed manually by visiting the
Akamai website. However, more interestingly, it can also be silently
installed by the Akamai Download Manager if a download requests Red
Swoosh should be used. Once installed, the service or application
will run on startup.

The malicious file to be downloaded and executed can potentially be
served by the Red Swoosh network alleviating any bandwidth issues on
the web server.

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5) Solution

Update to version 3333.

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6) Time Table

13/05/2008 - Vendor notified.
13/05/2008 - Vendor response.
06/06/2008 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by Dyon Balding, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2008-1106 for the vulnerability.

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9) About Secunia

Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate
customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence
relevant to their specific system configuration:

http://corporate.secunia.com/

Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory
database as a service to the security community and private
individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security.

http://secunia.com/

Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to
do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the
security and reliability of software in general:

http://corporate.secunia.com/secunia_research/33/

Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below
to see currently vacant positions:

http://secunia.com/secunia_vacancies/

Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories:

http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

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10) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-19/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

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