Published:2014/11/14  Last Updated:2014/11/14

JVN#89852154
iLogScanner vulnerable to cross-site scripting

Overview

iLogScanner contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Products Affected

  • iLogScanner V4.0

Description

iLogScanner provided by INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION AGENCY, JAPAN (IPA) is a software that checks access logs to detect suspected attacks against a web server. iLogScanner contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability (CWE-79) due to a flaw when processing analysis results and outputting the results into a HTML page.

Impact

An arbitrary script may be executed on the outputted HTML page when analyzing a specially crafted access log file.

Solution

Update the software
Users of the offline version of iLogScanner should update to the latest version according to the information provided by the developer.

According to the developer, the online version of iLogScanner has already been updated to address this vulnerability.

Vendor Status

Vendor Status Last Update Vendor Notes
INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION AGENCY, JAPAN (IPA) Vulnerable 2014/11/14 INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION AGENCY, JAPAN (IPA) website

References

JPCERT/CC Addendum

Vulnerability Analysis by JPCERT/CC

Analyzed on 2014.11.14 (CVSS Base Metrics)

What is CVSS?

Measures Severity Description
Access Vector(AV) Local (L) Adjacent Network (A) Network (N) A vulnerability exploitable with network access means the vulnerable software is bound to the network stack and the attacker does not require local network access or local access. Such a vulnerability is often termed "remotely exploitable".
Access Complexity(AC) High (H) Medium (M) Low (L) Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist.
Authentication(Au) Multiple (M) Single (S) None (N) Authentication is not required to exploit the vulnerability.
Confidentiality Impact(C) None (N) Partial (P) Complete (C) There is no impact to the confidentiality of the system.
Integrity Impact(I) None (N) Partial (P) Complete (C) Modification of some system files or information is possible, but the attacker does not have control over what can be modified, or the scope of what the attacker can affect is limited.
Availability Impact(A) None (N) Partial (P) Complete (C) There is no impact to the availability of the system.

Base Score:5.0

Credit

Shinya Mizutani of NTT NEOMEIT CORPORATION and Kazuhiko Kusano reported this vulnerability to IPA.
JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership.

Other Information

JPCERT Alert
JPCERT Reports
CERT Advisory
CPNI Advisory
TRnotes
CVE CVE-2014-7248
JVN iPedia JVNDB-2014-000133