PT-2017-8549 · Ossec · Ossec Web Ui

Shoji Baba · Published 2017-04-20 · Updated 2017-04-25 · CVE-2016-4847

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OSSEC Web UI versions prior to 0.9

Description The issue is related to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. The vulnerability is due to an unanchored regex in the site/search.php file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.9, update to version 0.9 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the site/search.php file until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-4847

Affected Products

Ossec Web Ui

References · 6

• https://github.com/ossec/ossec-wui/commit/b4dcbba7a8eb09ba9d38fc69807a8861255736d0 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4847 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4847 · Vendor Advisory
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2016/JVNDB-2016-000141.html · Note
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN58455472/index.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92536 · Note