Novell GroupWise 6.5/7 WebAccess cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Novell GroupWise 6.5/7. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component WebAccess. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2006-3817. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Novell GroupWise 6.5/7 (Groupware Software). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component WebAccess. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Novell GroupWise WebAccess 6.5 and 7 before 20060727 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an encoded SCRIPT element in an e-mail message with the UTF-7 character set, as demonstrated by the "+ADw-SCRIPT+AD4-" sequence.

The bug was discovered 05/26/2006. The weakness was presented 08/08/2006 by Jerome Odegaard and Francisco Amato with Infobyte Security Research (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.novell.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2006-3817 since 07/24/2006. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 74 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at support.novell.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (28211), SecurityFocus (BID 19297†), OSVDB (27819†), Secunia (SA21411†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1016648†). See VDB-31750 for similar entry. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.5

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.5
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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-80 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Recommended: Patch
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Patch: support.novell.com

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07/24/2006 +59 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: novell.com

Advisory: support.novell.com
Researcher: Jerome Odegaard, Francisco Amato
Organization: Infobyte Security Research
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-3817 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-3817
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-2428
X-Force: 28211 - Novell GroupWise WebAccess UTF-7 encoding cross-site scripting, Medium Risk
SecurityFocus: 19297 - Novell GroupWise Multiple HTML Injection Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 21411 - Novell GroupWise WebAccess Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 27819 - Novell GroupWise WebAccess Malformed SCRIPT Tag XSS
SecurityTracker: 1016648
Vupen: ADV-2006-3098

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/08/2006 14:34
Updated: 04/22/2018 12:51
Changes: 08/08/2006 14:34 (77), 04/22/2018 12:51 (7)
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Cache ID: 216:C63:103

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