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Cumin Unspecified Script Insertion Vulnerabilities


Secunia ID

SA48810

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-1575

Release Date

13 Apr 2012

Criticality

Less Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Software

Cumin

Where

From local network

Impact
Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities allow a third party to manipulate the content or behaviour of a web application in a user's browser, without compromising the underlying system.

Different Cross-Site Scripting related vulnerabilities are also classified under this category, including "script insertion" and "cross-site request forgery".

Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities are often used against specific users of a website to steal their credentials or to conduct spoofing attacks.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Cumin, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.

Solution

Fixed in the SVN repository.

Reported by

Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory

Red Hat Bug #805712:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805712

Cumin:
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cumin-developers/2012-March/000796.html