McAfee SuperScan 4.0 - Cross-Site Scripting

Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2013-024:

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in McAfee Superscan 4.0



Published: 08/02/2013

Version: 1.0



Vendor: McAfee (http://www.mcafee.com/)

Product: SuperScan

Version affected: v4.0



Product description:

SuperScan 4 is a Windows port scanning tool used as a TCP port scanner,

pinger and resolver.



Finding 1: Cross-Side Scripting Vulnerability

*****Credit: Piotr Duszynski @drk1wi of Trustwave SpiderLabs

CVE: CVE-2013-4884

CWE: CWE-79



It is possible to inject UTF-7 encoded XSS payload to the SuperScan 4.0

generated port scan report, through a specially crafted server response.



The injectable payload (partially UTF-7 encoded without parenthesis):



+ADw-img src=x onerror='a setter=alert,a="UTF-7-XSS";'+AD4-



XSS exploitation of McAfee SuperScan 4.0 can be automated with the

Portspoof software.



Remediation Steps:

The vendor released a fix for this vulnerability.  It is recommended to

upgrade SuperScan to version 4.1.



Revision History:

07/22/13 - Vulnerability disclosed to vendor

08/01/13 - Patch released by vendor

08/02/13 - Advisory published



References:

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB78992





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