Bug 1221616 (CVE-2015-3169) - CVE-2015-3169 askbot: cross-site scripting flaw
Summary: CVE-2015-3169 askbot: cross-site scripting flaw
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2015-3169
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1221618 1221619
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-05-14 12:50 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2023-05-12 18:22 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:41:15 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
0001-Fix-CVE-2015-3169-XSS-by-using-sort-argument-in-GET-.patch (1.24 KB, text/plain)
2015-06-29 10:33 UTC, Martin Prpič
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-05-14 12:50:55 UTC
A cross-site scripting flaw was found in AskBot, a question and answer forum written in Python and Django.

The flaw can be triggered by appending, for example:

?sort=%3C/SCript%3E%3CsvG/onLoad=prompt%289%29%3E 

to a question page on a vulnerable AskBot deployment.

This flaw is reported to be fixed in the latest release of AskBot, though it is unclear which one that is. askbot-0.7.51-4.el6.noarch is definitely vulnerable. The upstream changelog is not up-to-date:

http://askbot.org/doc/changelog.html

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-05-14 12:51:36 UTC
Created askbot tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-20 [bug 1221618]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1221619]

Comment 2 Zoltán Vigh 2015-05-23 15:48:47 UTC
Could you give me more information about the bug? I tested what you wrote but I couldn't trigger it.

Comment 3 Martin Prpič 2015-06-29 09:58:42 UTC
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Harsha Vardhan Boppana (@hvboppana) for reporting this issue.

Comment 4 Martin Prpič 2015-06-29 10:33:12 UTC
Created attachment 1044309 [details]
0001-Fix-CVE-2015-3169-XSS-by-using-sort-argument-in-GET-.patch

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:41:15 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.


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