Splunk 6.1.1 Header Referer cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in Splunk 6.1.1 (Log Management Software) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument Referer with the input value javascript:prompt("XXS by justpentest"); leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Splunk 6.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the HTTP Referer Header in a "404 Not Found" response. NOTE: this vulnerability might exist because of a CVE-2010-2429 regression.

The bug was discovered 05/27/2014. The weakness was published 10/21/2014 (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2014-8380 since 10/21/2014. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed by justpentest in HTTP GET Request and been published 3 years after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 74243 (Splunk '/en-US/app/' Referer Header XSS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses : XSS and running in the context r. The code used by the exploit is:

GET /en-US/app/ HTTP/1.1
Host=justpentest.com:8000
User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Accept=text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language=en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding=gzip, deflate
Referer=javascript:prompt("XXS by justpentest");
Connection=keep-alive

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (40997), Tenable (74243), SecurityFocus (BID 67655†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-46730†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
Author: justpentest
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Nessus ID: 74243
Nessus Name: Splunk '/en-US/app/' Referer Header XSS
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OpenVAS ID: 100694
OpenVAS Name: Splunk Referer Header 404 Error Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability - Feb15
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05/30/2014 +3 days 🔍
10/21/2014 +144 days 🔍
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03/27/2015 +156 days 🔍
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03/30/2022 +1908 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 126813⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2014-8380 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-8380
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-72670
SecurityFocus: 67655 - Splunk 'Referer' Header Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 46730 - Splunk 6.1.1 Remote XSS HTTP Referrer Header in a \, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/27/2015 12:07 PM
Updated: 03/30/2022 07:02 PM
Changes: 03/27/2015 12:07 PM (73), 08/01/2019 04:15 PM (8), 03/30/2022 07:02 PM (2)
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