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[sec-adv] Nokia Electronic Documentation Multiple Vulnerabilities

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 07:48:36 CDT


TITLE:
Nokia Electronic Documentation Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA9740

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9740/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of sensitive
information

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
Nokia Electronic Documentation (NED) 5.x

DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Nokia Electronic
Documentation (NED) allowing malicious people to see sensitive
information or conduct Cross Site Scripting attacks.

1) It is possible to conduct Cross Site Scripting attacks by
requesting a specially crafted URL.

Example:
http://[victim]/docs/<evil_code>

2) The "location" parameter isn't properly verified allowing
malicious people to access arbitrary resources. This could be
exploited to see contents of directories or to use NED as an open
proxy.

http://[victim]/docs/NED?action=retrieve&location=.
http://[victim]/docs/NED?action=retrieve&location=http://[another_server]/

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 5.0.

SOLUTION:
Nokia has planned to release a new version early 2004.

Nokia states that NED shouldn't be accessible except for trusted
staff and is designed to be placed on a seperate network.

REPORTED BY / CREDITS:
Ollie Whitehouse, stake

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a091503-1.txt

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