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Cisco IronPort Encryption Appliance Administrative Interface DOM-based Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability

February 13, 2012

Dell SecureWorks Security Advisory SWRX-2012-001

Advisory Information

  • Title: Cisco IronPort Encryption Appliance administrative interface DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability
  • Advisory ID: SWRX-2012-001
  • Date published: Monday, February 13, 2012
  • CVE: CVE-2012-0340
  • CVSS v2 base score: 4.3
  • Date of last update: Monday, February 13, 2012
  • Vendors contacted: Cisco Systems, Inc.
  • Release mode: Coordinated
  • Discovered by: Craig Lambert, Dell SecureWorks

Summary

A vulnerability exists in Cisco IronPort Encryption Appliance due to improper input validation of user-controlled input to the web-based administrative interface. User-controlled input supplied to the login page via the URL parameters/values is not properly sanitized for illegal or malicious content prior to being returned to the user in dynamically generated web content. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform DOM-based cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, potentially resulting in the compromise of administrator sessions on the Cisco IronPort Encryption Appliance device.

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