ColdFusion MX Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

From: Ory Segal (ORY.SEGALat_private)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 10:15:39 PDT

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    ==> Macromedia ColdFusion MX Cross site scripting vulnerability <==
    
    => Author: Ory Segal, Sanctum Inc.
    
    => Release date: 18/06/2002 (vendor was notified at: 03/06/2002)
    
    => Vendor: Macromedia ( http://www.macromedia.com )
    
    => Product: 
            - Macromedia ColdFusion MX (ColdFusion Server version: 6.0.0.46617)
            - Notes: 
                     [1] The vulnerabilities were tested on the evaluation
    version.
                     [2] The ColdFusion server was tested on Win2K (SP2) +
    IIS/5.0
    
    => Severity: High
    
    => CVE candidate: Not assigned
    
    => Summary: 
            A "Cross Site Scripting" vulnerability exists when requesting a
    non-existent
            ".cfm" file.
    
    => Description:
            Macromedia's ColdFusion MX comes with a default 404 error page.
            This 404 error page presents the path of the file requested, and
    does not filter it
            for hazardous characters, which might be used for a cross site
    scripting attack. 
            For example, the following request will pop-up a message containing
    the current session
            cookies:
    
            http://CF_MX_SERVER/>alert(document.cookie)</script>.cfm 
    
    => Solution: Patch available from the vendor's web site at: 
                 http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=23047
    
    => Workaround: 
            Change the default 404 error page associated with .cfm files, to
    your 
            own customized 404 error page.
    				
     <<ColdFusion_MX_CSS.txt>> 
    
    
    



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