__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN AmpJuke 'index.php' Vulnerability [Security Focus 27498] January 31, 2008 14:00 GMT Number S-153 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: AmpJuke is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. PLATFORM: AmpJuke AmpJuke 0.7 DAMAGE: Execute arbitrary script code. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is LOW. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute ASSESSMENT: arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-153.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27498/discuss ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Security Focus 27498 *****] AmpJuke 'index.php' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability AmpJuke is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks. AmpJuke 0.7.0 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. Bugtraq ID: 27498 Class: Input Validation Error CVE: Remote: Yes Local: No Published: Jan 29 2008 12:00AM Updated: Jan 30 2008 04:27PM Vulnerable: AmpJuke AmpJuke 0.7 [***** End Security Focus 27498 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ 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). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. CIAC is also a founding member of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global organization established to foster cooperation and coordination among computer security teams worldwide. 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