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SonicWALL Products Content Filtering Service Cross-Site Scripting
Secunia Advisory: SA32498
Release Date: 2008-10-31
Last Update: 2008-11-06
Popularity: 2,200 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:SonicWALL Pro Series
SonicWALL TZ Series

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-4918


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in various SonicWALL products, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via a URL is not properly sanitised before being returned in a Content Filtering Service message that a site is blocked. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a requested site.

The vulnerability is reported in SonicWALL products running SonicOS versions prior to 4.0.1.1.

Solution:
Update to SonicOS version 4.0.1.1 or later.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Adrian Pastor, reported via ZDI

Changelog:
2008-11-06: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-070/

SonicWALL:
http://www.sonicwall.com/downloads/SonicOS_Enhanced_4.0.1.1_Release_Notes.pdf


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