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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:33:25 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Raphael Geissert <atomo64@...il.com>, 700158@...s.debian.org,
700159@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: XSS flaws fixed in ganglia
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On 02/21/2013 06:50 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> On 21 February 2013 11:47, Raphael Geissert <atomo64@...il.com>
> wrote:
>> On 8 February 2013 19:06, Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
>> wrote:
>>> A number of XSS issues were fixed in ganglia's web ui:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/commit/31d348947419058c43b8dfcd062e2988abd5058e
>>
>>
>>>
I've a hunch that there are a few issues with the changes. A quick
>> look at the patch shows that the change here breaks the
>> preg_replace call:
>
> Forgot the reference, here's the exact code:
> https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/commit/31d348947419058c43b8dfcd062e2988abd5058e#L7R17
>
> [Salvatore, thanks for forwarding it]
>
> Some other notes:
>
> *
> https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/commit/31d348947419058c43b8dfcd062e2988abd5058e#L9R35
>
> This is a directory traversal issue that requires authentication,
> but there doesn't seem to be a CSRF protection in place (unless
> I'm missing something). The (stored) XSS part of it is not entirely
> fixed for the case where an attacker successfully took advantage of
> it since the sanitation is only performed when storing to the .json
> file.
>
> The other operations related to views (in views_view.php) are all
> still vulnerable to XSS via the view_name GET parameter.
>
>
> The authentication cookie uses a persistent token for every user
> (no session ids or any sort of nonce), which is an issue on its
> own, but it also doesn't verify that the group stored in the cookie
> actually corresponds to the user. As of 3.5.7 the groups feature
> still doesn't seem to be in use, however.
>
>
> So I guess we are going to need at least one more CVE id for the
> remaining XSS issues in views_view.php and I leave the rest up to
> the opinion of others (upstream included).
>
> Cheers,
Sorry I forgot about this after all the XML excitement. Please use
CVE-2013-1770 for this issue.
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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