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SiteMinder Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks for multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in SiteMinder

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote web server contains a CGI script that is affected by
several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

Description :

The remote host is running SiteMinder, an access-management solution
from Netegrity / Computer Associates.

The installed version of SiteMinder suffers from several cross-site
scripting flaws in its 'smpwservicescgi.exe' script. A possible hacker can
exploit these flaws to inject arbitrary HTML and script code into the
browsers of users of the affected application, thereby leading to
cookie theft, site mis-representation, and similar attacks.

See also :

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-07/0112.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-07/0163.html

Solution :

Unknown at this time.

Network Security Threat Level:

Low / CVSS Base Score : 2
(AV:R/AC:H/Au:NR/C:N/A:N/I:P/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 14203

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