EMC RSA Authentication Manager < 8.2 SP1 Patch 5 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (ESA-2017-134)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 104380

Synopsis

An application running on the remote host is affected by cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

The version of EMC RSA Authentication Manager running on the remote host is prior to 8.2 SP1 Patch 5 (8.2.1.5). It is, therefore, affected by a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability via an argument in the HTTP POST request. Attackers could potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary HTML or JavaScript code in the user's browser session in the context of the affected RSA Authentication Manager application.

Solution

Upgrade to EMC RSA Authentication Manager version 8.2 SP1 Patch 5 (8.2.1.5) or later.

See Also

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Oct/62

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 104380

File Name: emc_rsa_am_8_2_sp1_p5.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 11/3/2017

Updated: 11/12/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:emc:rsa_authentication_manager, cpe:/a:rsa:authentication_manager

Required KB Items: www/emc_rsa_am

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/26/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14373

BID: 101605