CVE-2014-5391 =================== "DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)" (CWE-79) vulnerability in "JobScheduler" product Vendor =================== Software- & Organisations-Service GmbH Product =================== "JobScheduler is a workload automation tool. It is used to launch JobScheduler objects, such as jobs and/or orders, at the occurrence of time, file or calendar events. JobScheduler was recognised in 2012 by Gartner Inc. with a placement in their Magic Quadrant for workload automation. JobScheduler provides solutions from simple to complex scheduling scenarios. It is available with an open source or a commercial licence." - source: http://www.sos-berlin.com/modules/cjaycontent/index.php?id=osource_scheduler_introduction_en.htm Affected versions =================== This vulnerability affects versions of JobScheduler prior to 1.7.4241 as well as versions prior to 1.6.4246. Patch =================== The vendor has released patches for versions 1.7.x and 1.6.x at http://www.sos-berlin.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=73 http://www.sos-berlin.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=74 Reported by =================== This issue was reported to the vendor by Christian Schneider (@cschneider4711) following a responsible disclosure process. Severity =================== Medium Description =================== Using a specially crafted request to access the web interface of JobScheduler it is possible to execute DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The content of the hash-part is written using document.write() from location.hash directly into the HTML, resulting in the DOM-based XSS. Proof of concept =================== Due to the responsible disclosure process chosen and to not harm unpatched systems, no concrete exploit code will be presented in this advisory. References =================== http://www.sos-berlin.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=73 http://www.sos-berlin.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=74 http://www.christian-schneider.net/advisories/CVE-2014-5391.txt