E-supportportal ESCON SupportPortal 3.0 HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in E-supportportal ESCON SupportPortal 3.0 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation of the argument HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability was named CVE-2012-2590. The attack may be performed from remote. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in E-supportportal ESCON SupportPortal 3.0. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation of the argument HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie 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 integrity. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ESCON SupportPortal Professional Edition 3.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message body with (1) a SCRIPT element, (2) a crafted SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, (3) a crafted CONTENT attribute of an HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" META element, or (4) an innerHTML attribute within an XML document.

The weakness was presented 08/12/2012 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2012-2590 since 05/09/2012. 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. Technical details and a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

A public exploit has been developed by loneferret and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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 Exploit-DB (20350) and OSVDB (84747†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.1

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
Local: No
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: loneferret
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05/09/2012 🔍
08/08/2012 +91 days 🔍
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08/12/2012 +4 days 🔍
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03/23/2015 +953 days 🔍
09/12/2025 +3826 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: exploit-db.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2012-2590 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-2590
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-61548
OSVDB: 84747

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 09/12/2025 02:21
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (42), 01/13/2018 12:38 (13), 09/12/2025 02:21 (16)
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