Bug 1164024 (CVE-2014-7852)

Summary: CVE-2014-7852 RichFaces: Cross-site scripting due to incomplete URL sanitization
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Chess Hazlett <chazlett>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bdawidow, bleathem, chazlett, hfnukal, jpallich, jrusnack, mnovotny, mweiler, security-response-team, theute
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It was found that RichFaces accepted arbitrary strings included in a URL and returned them unencoded in a CSS file. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against a user running a RichFaces application.
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Bug Depends On: 1163442    
Bug Blocks: 1164027    

Description Chess Hazlett 2014-11-13 23:00:53 UTC
IssueDescription:

It was found that RichFaces accepted arbitrary strings included in a URL and returned them unencoded in a CSS file. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against a user running a RichFaces application.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-12-09 17:56:51 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Portal 6.1.1

Via RHSA-2014:1973 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1973.html