Cisco Prime Network / Wireless Control System Health Monitor Reflected XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69057

Synopsis

A web application on the remote host has a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

The version of Health Monitor (a component of Cisco Prime Network / Wireless Control System) hosted on the remote web server is affected by a reflective cross-site scripting vulnerability. Input to the 'requestUrl' parameter is not properly sanitized. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into requesting a specially crafted URL, resulting in arbitrary script code execution.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2013-07

http://www.nessus.org/u?f19be7d6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69057

File Name: cisco_prime_ncs_health_monitor_CSCud18375.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: remote

Published: 7/25/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:prime_network_control_system

Required KB Items: www/prime_health_monitor

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/31/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5990

BID: 62143

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

CERT: 830316

TRA: TRA-2013-07

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCud18375