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A.CMS Cross Site Scripting

A.CMS Cross Site Scripting
Posted Mar 13, 2009
Authored by Dmitriy Evteev | Site securitylab.ru

A.CMS versions 1.x prior to 1.23 suffer from a cross site scripting vulnerability.

tags | advisory, xss
SHA-256 | e777478a3d3cd78c3d456ec61bbfe90e90d7b050c15858e531b7556fde03082c

A.CMS Cross Site Scripting

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(PT-2009-20) Positive Technologies Security Advisory

A.CMS Multiple Vulnerabilities

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---[ Affected Software ]

A.CMS
Versions 1.x prior to 1.23

Product Link:
http://a-cms.ru


---[ Severity Rating ]

Severity: Medium
Impact: Cross-Site Scripting, installation path disclosure
Attack Vector: Remote

CVSS v2:
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C)

CVE: not assigned


---[ Software Description ]

A.CMS is a content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as
a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to
manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML
documents and their associated images).


---[ Vulnerability Description ]

Positive Technologies Research Team has discovered the following
vulnerabilities in A.CMS:
A) Cross-Site Scripting
B) Installation path disclosure


A) Cross-Site Scripting

Application does not properly verify input data passed to certain parameter.
This can be exploited to inject malicious code and allows to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an
affected site. Vulnerability details are not disclosed.

Malicious users may inject JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX, HTML or Flash into
a vulnerable application to fool users in order to gather data from their
machines. An attacker can steal the session cookie and take over the account
impersonating the user. It is also possible to modify page content presented
to the user.

B) Installation path disclosure

Application does not properly verify input data for some scripts. This
allows to call an exception that leads to web server root directory
disclosure. Vulnerability details are not disclosed.

An attacker may use the data to exploit another attacks.


--[ Solution ]

Update to latest version.
http://a-cms.ru/download/


--[ Disclosure Timeline ]

03/02/2009 - Vendor is notified
03/04/2009 - Vendor response
03/04/2009 - Vendor releases fixed version
03/10/2009 - Requested status update from vendor
03/13/2009 - Public disclosure


---[ Credits ]

This vulnerability was discovered by Dmitry Evteev (Positive Technologies
Research Team) using professional network security scanner MaxPatrol.


---[ References ]

http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2009-20
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Positive Technologies
Research Team:

http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp


---[ About Positive Technologies ]

Positive Technologies www.ptsecurity.com is among the key players in the IT
security market in Russia.
The principal activities of the company include the development of
integrated tools for information security monitoring (MaxPatrol); providing
IT security consulting services and technical support; the development of
the Securitylab en.securitylab.ru leading Russian information security
portal.

Among the clients of Positive Technologies there are more than 40 state
enterprises, more than 50 banks and financial organizations, 20
telecommunication companies, more than 40 plant facilities, as well as IT,
service and retail companies from Russia, CIS countries, Baltic States,
China, Ecuador, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Iran, Israel, Japan,
Mexico, South African Republic, Thailand, Turkey and USA.

Positive Technologies is a team of highly skilled developers, advisers and
experts with years of vast hands-on experience. The company specialists
possess professional titles and certificates; they are the members of
various international societies and are actively involved in the IT security
field development.

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