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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in EMC RSA Authentication Manager up to 7.1. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2012-2278. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in EMC RSA Authentication Manager up to 7.1. Affected is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the (1) Self-Service Console and (2) Security Console in EMC RSA Authentication Manager 7.1 before SP4 P14 and RSA SecurID Appliance 3.0 before SP4 P14 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was shared 07/11/2012 as ESA-2012-023 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2012-2278 since 04/19/2012. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. 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.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at knowledge.rsasecurity.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at OSVDB (83761†), Secunia (SA49927†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1027247†). The entries VDB-5665 and VDB-5667 are related to this item. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• EMC

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• RSA Authentication Manager

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• 7.0
• 7.1

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.dellemc.com/

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