CA20090615-02: CA Service Desk Tomcat Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Published:
June 15 2009, 10:30 PM
by
Ken Williams
On June 15th, 2009, CA published a security notice to address a vulnerability in CA Service Desk.
Title: CA20090615-02: CA Service Desk Tomcat Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
CA Advisory Reference: CA20090615-02
CA Advisory Date: 2009-06-15
Impact: A remote attacker can inject arbitrary web script or HTML.
Summary: The release of Tomcat as included with CA Service Desk r11.2 is potentially susceptible to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. CA has issued a technical document that describes remediation procedures.
Mitigating Factors: None
Severity: CA has given this vulnerability a Medium risk rating.
Affected Products:
CA Service Desk r11.2
Affected Platforms:
Windows, Unix
Status and Recommendation:
Follow the instructions in technical document TEC489643.
How to determine if the installation is affected:
Customers can use the instructions in technical document TEC489643 to determine if an installation may be affected.
Workaround:
None
References (URLs may wrap):
CA Support:
https://support.ca.com/
CA20090615-02: Security Notice for CA Service Desk
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=209500
Solution Document Reference APARs:
TEC489643
CA Security Response Blog posting:
CA20090615-02: CA Service Desk Tomcat Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/06/15.aspx
CVE References:
CVE-2008-1232
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1232
OSVDB References: Pending
http://osvdb.org/
Changelog for this advisory:
v1.0 - Initial Release
Customers who require additional information should contact CA Technical Support at https://support.ca.com.
For technical questions or comments related to this advisory, please send email to vuln AT ca DOT com.
If you discover a vulnerability in CA products, please report your findings to the CA Product Vulnerability Response Team.
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=177782
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