PT-2011-1266 · Eclipse · Eclipse Ide

Rob Carter · Published 2011-01-13 · Updated 2011-07-19 · CVE-2008-7271

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Eclipse IDE version 3.3.2

Description The issue concerns multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application of Eclipse IDE. These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. Specifically, the vulnerabilities can be exploited through the searchWord parameter to "help/advanced/searchView.jsp" or the workingSet parameter in an add action to "help/advanced/workingSetManager.jsp".

Recommendations For Eclipse IDE version 3.3.2, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "help/advanced/searchView.jsp" and "help/advanced/workingSetManager.jsp" endpoints to minimize the risk of exploitation. Avoid using the searchWord and workingSet parameters in these endpoints until the issue is resolved. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-7271

Affected Products

Eclipse Ide

References · 5

• 🔥 http://r00tin.blogspot.com/2008/04/eclipse-local-web-server-exploitation.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/35242 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/35243 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7271 · Security Note
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=223539 · Note