TITLE:
Apache Geronimo Web-Access-Log Viewer Script Insertion

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18485

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Apache Geronimo 1.x
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DESCRIPTION:
Oliver Karow has reported a vulnerability in Apache Geronimo, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion
attacks.

Input passed in the URL isn't properly sanitised before being used by
the Web-Access-Log viewer. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary
JavaScript code in user's browser session in context of an affected
website when a malicious log entry is viewed in geronimo-admin.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has reportedly been fixed in versions 1.0.1 and
1.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Oliver Karow

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/geronimo_css.txt
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1474

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