Digital Security Research Group [DSecRG] Advisory #DSECRG-09-038 Original advisory: http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=138 Application: Sun Glassfish Woodstock Project (part of Glassfish Enterprise Server) Versions Affected: 4.2 Vendor URL: https://woodstock.dev.java.net/ Bug: Linked XSS Vulnerability Exploits: YES Reported: 19.03.2009 Vendor response: 20.03.2009 Solution: YES Date of Public Advisory: 05.05.2009 Author: Digital Security Research Group [DSecRG] (research [at] dsecrg [dot] com) Description *********** Woodstock components are User Interface Components for the web, based on Java Server Faces and AJAX. Woodstock also is part Glassfish Enterprise Server. Woodstock has linked XSS vulnerability in 404 Error page. Details ******* Using this vulnerability attacker can steal admin's cookie and then authentificate as administrator or perform certain administrative actions. Attacker can inject XSS in URL string using UTF-7 encoding. Exploiting this issue required Auto-Select encoding in browser configuration. Example: http://[server]/theme/META-INF/>+ACJ-+AD4APB-SCRIPT+AD7-alert(+ACI-DSecR G_XSS+ACI-)+ADz-/SCRIPT+AD7- Solution ******** This security vulnerabilities fixed in CVS. The following link to the commit email message for the changes to fix these issue: https://woodstock.dev.java.net/servlets/ReadMsg?list=cvs&msgNo=4041 Credits ******* http://www.nabble.com/Re:--DSECRG--Sun-Glassfish-Multiple-Security-Vulne rabilities-p23002524.html About ***** Digital Security is leading IT security company in Russia, providing information security consulting, audit and penetration testing services, risk analysis and ISMS-related services and certification for ISO/IEC 27001:2005 and PCI DSS standards. Digital Security Research Group focuses on web application and database security problems with vulnerability reports, advisories and whitepapers posted regularly on our website. Contact: research [at] dsecrg [dot] com http://www.dsecrg.com http://www.dsec.ru