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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:59:58 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Christian Hammond <chipx86@...px86.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- ReviewBoard v1.5.7 && v1.6.3 --
 XSS in the commenting system (diff viewer and screenshot pages components)

On 11/15/2011 06:51 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
>
>   a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way the commenting
> system of the ReviewBoard, a web-based code review tool, sanitized user
> input (new comments to be loaded). A remote attacker could provide a
> specially-crafted URL, which once visited by valid ReviewBoard user
> could lead to arbitrary HTML or web script execution in the 'diff
> viewer' or 'screenshot pages' components.
>
> References:
> [1] http://www.reviewboard.org/news/
> [2] http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/reviewboard/1.6.3/
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754126
>
> Relevant upstream patch:
> [4]
> https://github.com/reviewboard/reviewboard/commit/7a0a9d94555502278534dedcf2d75e9fccce8c3d
>
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
>
> Thank you && Regards, Jan.
> -- 
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
>
> P.S.: Cc-ed Christian Hammond, who committed change [4] to the
>       upstream Git repository too, so they could update CVE id
>       in their advisory, if / where needed.

Please use CVE-2011-4312 for this issue.

-- 

-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team

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