Cisco Web Security Appliance CVE-2018-0406 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Cisco Web Security Appliance is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

This issue being tracked by Cisco Bug ID CSCve84006.

Information

Bugtraq ID: 104945
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2018-0406

Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 01 2018 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 01 2018 12:00AM
Credit: Cisco
Vulnerable: Cisco Web Security Appliance -

Not Vulnerable:

Exploit

To exploit this issue an attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim to open a malicious URI.

References:

• Cisco Web Security Appliance Homepage (Cisco)
  
• Cisco Web Security Appliance Reflected and Document Object Model-Based Cross-Sit (Cisco)
  

Source: www.securityfocus.com