Splunk '/en-US/app/' Referer Header XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74243

Synopsis

The remote web server contains an application that is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

The version of Splunk hosted on the remote web server is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability due to a failure to properly sanitize user-supplied input to the 'Referer' HTTP header. An attacker can exploit this issue to inject arbitrary HTML and script code into a user's browser to be executed within the security context of the affected site.

Solution

Unknown at this time.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?478b0c12

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74243

File Name: splunk_referer_xss.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: remote

Published: 5/30/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:splunk:splunk

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Splunk

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Exploited by Nessus: true

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8380

BID: 67655

CWE: 20, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 74, 750, 751, 79, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990