ForeScout CounterACT reflected XSS vulnerability

Overview

The ForeScout CounterACT appliance contains reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

Description

The web interface of the ForeScout CounterACT appliance contains reflected XSS vulnerabilities (CWE-79). The following are a couple examples:

hxxp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/status?username=test``"><script>alert(1);</script> ``hxxp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/status?action=4362907358160917120&forgotpass=true&loginname=test``<script>alert(1);</script>
Additional details may be found in ForeScout Security Advisory 12-01. (Login Required)

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Impact

A remote attacker may, by luring a user into clicking a malicious URL, be able to disclose sensitive information, steal user cookies, or escalate privileges.

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Solution

Apply an Update

* CounterACT 6.3.3.2 install Hotfix 4.12050
* CounterACT 6.3.4.0 install Hotfix 10.0
* CounterACT 6.3.4.1 install Hotfix 6.0
* CounterACT 6.3.4.10 install Hotfix 1.0

Customers may obtain these patches automatically via the “Check For Updates” function or by logging into the ForeScout Customer Support Portal. (Login Required)

Vendor Information

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Notified: May 02, 2012 Updated: June 07, 2012

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

ForeScout Technologies would like to thank Travis Lee and the CERT-CC for reporting and responsible disclosure of this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

We are not aware of further vendor information regarding this vulnerability.

CVSS Metrics

Group	Score	Vector
Base	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Temporal	3.4	E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
Environmental	3.4	CDP:ND/TD:ND/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

• <http://updates.forescout.com/support&gt;
• <http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html&gt;

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Travis Lee for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Jared Allar.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2012-1825
Date Public:	2012-06-07 Date First Published: