Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator up to 2.2.2.8 Admin cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator up to 2.2.2.8. This affects the function Admin. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the management login GUI page in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) before 2.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username field, as demonstrated by injecting an IFRAME element into the event log, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0545.

The bug was discovered 07/14/2010. The weakness was published 03/21/2011 by Nikolas Sotiriu (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2011-1524. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details and a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

A public exploit has been developed by Nikolas Sotiriu in Perl and been published 2 days after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 251 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 53209 (Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator < 2.3 CSRF (SYM11-005)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses.

Upgrading to version 2.2.2.9 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (66213), Tenable (53209) and Exploit-DB (17026). Similar entry is available at 56952.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
ATT&CK: T1059.007

Local: No
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Nikolas Sotiriu
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Nessus ID: 53209
Nessus Name: Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator < 2.3 CSRF (SYM11-005)
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Upgrade: LiveUpdate Administrator 2.2.2.9

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Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Researcher: Nikolas Sotiriu
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-1524 (🔍)
X-Force: 66213
Vulnerability Center: 30747 - Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator before 2.3 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 46856 - Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator Management GUI HTML Injection Vulnerability
OSVDB: 71261 - Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator Multiple Admin Function CSRF

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/20/2015 16:16
Updated: 10/21/2021 12:44
Changes: 03/20/2015 16:16 (62), 03/20/2017 09:25 (17), 10/21/2021 12:37 (4), 10/21/2021 12:44 (1)
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