HAWKI LDAP Authentication login.php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim HAWKI. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the file login.php of the component LDAP Authentication Handler. Such manipulation of the argument $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-25976. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim HAWKI (version now known). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file login.php of the component LDAP Authentication Handler. The manipulation of the argument $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

When LDAP authentication is activated in the configuration it is possible to obtain reflected XSS execution by creating a custom URL that the victim only needs to open in order to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the victim's browser. This is due to a fault in the file login.php where the content of "$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" is reflected into the HTML of the website. Hence the attacker does not need a valid account in order to exploit this issue.

The weakness was published by Florian Stuhlmann and Thorger Jansen. The advisory is available at r.sec-consult.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-25976 since 02/13/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at packetstormsecurity.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:login.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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

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• University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim

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• HAWKI

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