BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 Application Firewall cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Application Firewall. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-2092. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 (Application Server Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Application Firewall. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

BEA Systems WebLogic 8.1 SP1 allows remote attackers to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks via an HTTP request with both a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header and a Content-Length header, which causes WebLogic to incorrectly handle and forward the body of the request in a way that causes the receiving server to process it as a separate HTTP request, aka "HTTP Request Smuggling."

The weakness was disclosed 07/05/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at watchfire.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-2092 since 06/30/2005. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for 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.

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 X-Force (42901) and SecurityTracker (ID 1014366†). The entries VDB-1652, VDB-25654, VDB-25653 and VDB-25651 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Application Server Software

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• BEA

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• WebLogic Server

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• 8.1

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/bea/

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