Apsis Pound 1.9.3 Application Firewall cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Apsis Pound 1.9.3. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Application Firewall. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2005-3751. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Apsis Pound 1.9.3. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Application Firewall. 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 integrity. CVE summarizes:

HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in Pound before 1.9.4 allows remote attackers to poison web caches, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks via an HTTP request with conflicting Content-length and Transfer-encoding headers.

The bug was discovered 01/10/2006. The weakness was presented 11/22/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at novell.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2005-3751 since 11/22/2005. 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.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21666 (GLSA-200606-05 : Pound: HTTP request smuggling), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 1.9.4 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 8 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (24422), Tenable (21666), OSVDB (22298†), Secunia (SA18367†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-11873†). See VDB-30145 and VDB-30144 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-80 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 21666
Nessus Name: GLSA-200606-05 : Pound: HTTP request smuggling
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OpenVAS ID: 56113
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 934-1 (pound)
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Upgrade: Pound 1.9.4

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: novell.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-3751 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-3751
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-27028
X-Force: 24422
Secunia: 18367 - Pound HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 22298 - CVE-2005-3751 - Apsis - Pound - HTTP Request Smuggling Issue
Vulnerability Center: 11873 - Pound HTTP Request Smuggling via HTTP Request w\\ Conflicting Headers, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 06/20/2019 15:52
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (74), 06/20/2019 15:52 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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