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TITLE:
Apache Geronimo Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34715

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34715/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Apache Geronimo, which can
be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security
restrictions and by malicious people to conduct script insertion,
cross-site scripting, and cross-site request forgery attacks.

1) Input passed to e.g. the "Services/Repository", "Embedded DB/DB
Manager", and "Security/Keystores" portlets in the web administration
console is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be
exploited to upload arbitrary files to arbitrary directories via
directory traversal attacks.

2) Input passed e.g. via the URL to console/portal/ in the web
administration console is not 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 an affected
site.

3) Input passed e.g. to the "name", "ip", "username", and
"description" parameters in console/portal/Server/Monitoring is not
properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert
arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in an
administrative user's browser session in context of an affected site
when the malicious data is viewed.

4) The web administration console allows users to perform certain
actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity check to
verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. change the web
administration password or upload applications when a logged in
administrator visits a malicious web page.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.1.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.1.4.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1 - 4) Digital Security Research Group
2, 3) The vendor also credits Marc Schoenefeld

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Apache:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4597

Digital Security Research Group:
http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=118
http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=119
http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=120

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