369137 – (CVE-2011-1838) www-apps/twiki: Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2011-1838)

Bug 369137 (CVE-2011-1838) - www-apps/twiki: Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2011-1838)

Summary: www-apps/twiki: Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2011-1838)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2011-1838

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/S...
Whiteboard:	~4 [noglsa]
Keywords:

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Blocks:

Reported:	2011-05-29 03:56 UTC by Tim Sammut (RETIRED)
Modified:	2012-03-03 20:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Tim Sammut (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-05-29 03:56:06 UTC

From the upstream advisory at $URL:

Attack Vectors

Attack can be done by viewing wiki pages or by logging in by issuing HTTP GET requests towards the TWiki server (usually port 80/TCP).

Impact

Specially crafted parameters open up XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attacks.

Severity Level

The TWiki SecurityTeam triaged this issue as documented in TWikiSecurityAlertProcess and assigned the following severity level:

    * Severity 3 issue: TWiki content or browser is compromised. 


There is a new release available, and a patch at $URL.

Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2011-06-13 16:55:25 UTC

CVE-2011-1838 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1838):
  Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in TemplateLogin.pm in
  TWiki before 5.0.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or
  HTML via the origurl parameter to a (1) view script or (2) login script.

Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-03 18:47:43 UTC

package has been removed from tree

Comment 3 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-03 20:17:11 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> package has been removed from tree

Thanks. Closing noglsa since twiki was only ever ~arch.