McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator up to 4.6.6 Build 176 core/loadDisplayType.do instanceId Reflected cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator up to 4.6.6 Build 176. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file core/loadDisplayType.do. The manipulation of the argument instanceId as part of POST Request leads to cross site scripting (Reflected). This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2013-4883. The attack may be initiated remotely. In addition, an exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator up to 4.6.6 Build 176 (Endpoint Management Software). This issue affects some unknown processing of the file core/loadDisplayType.do. The manipulation of the argument instanceId as part of a POST Request leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability (Reflected). 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6.6 and earlier, and the ePO Extension for the McAfee Agent (MA) 4.5 through 4.6, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) instanceId parameter core/loadDisplayType.do; (2) instanceId or (3) monitorUrl parameter to console/createDashboardContainer.do; uid parameter to (4) ComputerMgmt/sysDetPanelBoolPie.do or (5) ComputerMgmt/sysDetPanelSummary.do; (6) uid, (7) orion.user.security.token, or (8) ajaxMode parameter to ComputerMgmt/sysDetPanelQry.do; or (9) uid, (10) orion.user.security.token, or (11) ajaxMode parameter to ComputerMgmt/sysDetPanelSummary.do.

The bug was discovered 06/08/2013. The weakness was presented 07/12/2013 by Nuri Fattah with NATO Computer Incident Response Capability as KB78824 as confirmed knowledge base article (Website). The advisory is shared at kc.mcafee.com. The public release happened without involvement of McAfee. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2013-4883 since 07/21/2013. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed by Nuri Fattah and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available 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 34 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 68933 (McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator < 4.6.7 Multiple XSS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses : XSS.

Upgrading to version 4.6.7 eliminates this vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 13188.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (26807), Tenable (68933), SecurityFocus (BID 61422†), OSVDB (95191†) and Secunia (SA54143†). See VDB-9529, VDB-9530, VDB-9531 and VDB-9532 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Name: Reflected
Class: Cross site scripting / Reflected
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: Nuri Fattah
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Nessus ID: 68933
Nessus Name: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator < 4.6.7 Multiple XSS
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6.7
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mcafee.com

Advisory: KB78824
Researcher: Nuri Fattah
Organization: NATO Computer Incident Response Capability
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-4883 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-4883
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-9533
SecurityFocus: 61422 - McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 54143 - McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
OSVDB: 95191
SecurityTracker: 1028803
Vulnerability Center: 40839 - Mcafee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6.6 and Before Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability via Multiple Vectors, Medium

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

Created: 07/17/2013 15:42
Updated: 07/06/2025 04:05
Changes: 07/17/2013 15:42 (89), 05/07/2017 11:42 (4), 05/18/2021 20:22 (3), 05/18/2021 20:29 (1), 07/06/2025 04:05 (14)
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Committer: olku
Cache ID: 216:2E6:103

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