__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN ELOG Vulnerabilities [Security Focus 27399] January 28, 2008 18:00 GMT Number S-130 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: ELOG is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability and Denial of Service vulnerability because the application fails to properly handle user-supplied input. PLATFORM: Versions prior to ELOG 2.7.1 DAMAGE: DoS or the execution of arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. An attacker may leverage these issues to ASSESSMENT: cause denial-of-service conditions or to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-130.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27399/discuss ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Security Focus 27399 *****] ELOG Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability and Denial of Service Vulnerability ELOG is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability and a denial-of-service vulnerability because the application fails to properly handle user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage these issues to cause denial-of-service conditions or to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks. Versions prior to ELOG 2.7.1 are vulnerable. Bugtraq ID: 27399 Class: Input Validation Error CVE: Remote: Yes Local: No Published: Jan 22 2008 12:00AM Updated: Jan 23 2008 09:38PM Credit: These vulnerabilities were disclosed by the vendor. Vulnerable: Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.6.2 SVN revision 1748 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.6.2 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.6.1 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.6 .0 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.5.7 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.5.6 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.5 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.4 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.2.4 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.2.3 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.2.2 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.2.1 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.2 .0 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.1.3 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.1.2 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.1.1 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.1 .0 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.0.5 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.0.4 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.0.3 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.0.2 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.0.1 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.0 .0 Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.6.2-7 SVN revision Not Vulnerable: Elog Web Logbook Elog Web Logbook 2.7.1 [***** End Security Focus 27399 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Security Focus for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 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