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Vulnerability Assessment Details

FrontPage fpadmdll.dll Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks version of FrontPage's fpadmdll.dll

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote web server contains a server extension that is affected by
several cross-site scripting flaws.

Description :

The version of Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 / SharePoint
Team Services on the remote host fails to sanitize user-supplied input
to the 'operation', 'command', and 'name' parameters of
'/_vti_bin/_vti_adm/fpadmdll.dll' before using it to generate dynamic
HTML. A possible hacker may be able to exploit this issue to cause
arbitrary HTML and script code to be executed by a user's browser in
the context of the affected web site. If the user is an
administrator, successful exploitation will give the attacker complete
control over the affected application.

Solution :

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Frontapage 2002 for XP and
2003 :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-017.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

High / CVSS Base Score : 7.0
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:P/I:P/A:P/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 17452

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Tenable Network Security

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