full-disclosure - Re: Astaro Security Gateway v8.1

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:24:27 +0100
From: Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@...il.com>
To: Markus Hennig <Markus.Hennig@...hos.com>
Cc: "research@...nerability-lab.com" <research@...nerability-lab.com>,
	"full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	"submissions@...ketstormsecurity.org" <submissions@...ketstormsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: Astaro Security Gateway v8.1 - Input
	Validation Vulnerability

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Markus Hennig <Markus.Hennig@...hos.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Astaro hereby confirms the described vulnerability.
>
> In spite of the text below it is not remote exploitable, but needs a valid
> administration account to access the web configuration interface called
> "WebAdmin".
>

if it is an XSS attack, then why would the attacker need an account to
exploit it?

> Within WebAdmin a privilege escalation is the worst case scenario which
> can happen. The user with higher privileges has to open a preview window of
> a XSS manipulated object.
>

yeah, if the malicious person can bait a logged in user to visit the
prepared url, that would allow the attacker to create an account.

>
> Because every  access and all object modifications are logged with
> username and IP and because the issue is not remote exploitable we will fix
> it within the regular Up2Date schedule with release of version 8.301.
>

uhm, I don't see why would a proper logging mitigate the fact that the
system is compromised.
but it is a good thing that you are fixing it.

-- 
Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu

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