Navy Federal Cross Site Scripting

The Navy Federal site at navyfederal.org suffered from a cross site scripting vulnerability.


MD5 | 455aedc855366fcbd0be7206169b22fc

Vendor
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Navy Federal - (https://www.navyfederal.org/

Product
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Front pubic facing application

Credit
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Arthrocyber
http://arthrocyber.com/research/#finding_7

David Reyes

Vulnerability Summary
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The endpoint sdu.navyfederal.org/__85258014004953a3.nsf/secureUploadMain did not sanitize HTML characters. It was possible to pass HTML code which triggered an XSS.
Technical Details
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The parameter "type" failed to properly sanitize HTML characters resulting in reflective XSS.

https://sdu.navyfederal.org/__85258014004953a3.nsf/secureUploadMain?OpenForm&Seq=1&Type=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%225-2-17--Reflective-Arthrocyber-XSS%22)%3C/script%3E

https://sdu.navyfederal.org/__85258014004953a3.nsf/secureUploadMain?OpenForm&Seq=1&Type=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3Eß

Solution
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Reference OWASP top 10.
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/

Timeline
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07 May 2019 - Adaptive Security Consulting discovered a series of vulnerabilities in medical records management and
search applications being considered by our client
September 2020 - Endpoint no longer appears to be vulnerable to XSS.


Juan Avila
Arthrocyber, LLC
Cell (682)238-7188




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