Advisory: Tripwire Enterprise/Server XSS Vulnerability

Name: Tripwire Enterprise/Server XSS Vulnerability
Release Date: 29 January 2008
Reference: LSD001-2008
Discover: Dave Lewis
Vendor: Tripwire
Product: Tripwire Enterprise/Server Management Web Interface
Systems Affected: version 7.0 (as tested)
NB. Earlier versions are affected as well. Please upgrade.

Risk: Less Critical
Status: Published
Reference:
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Description

The Tripwire Enterprise/Server management login page contains a
vulnerability in the login page is susceptible to a cross site scripting
(XSS) attack.

Impact: a remote attacker could execute a XSS attack that could pass
arbitrary html to the user.

Technical Details

Input passed to the URL of the web management login page is not properly
sanitized before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to
execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in
context of an affected site.

Fix Information

This issue has been resolved.

The patch may be obtained by customers from:

http://www.tripwire.com (Patch 866 "te-7.0.0.866_patch.zip")

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