CVE-2011-2694

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2011-07-26
IAVA:
2012-A-0020
CWE:
CWE-79
Bugzilla:
722537: CVE-2011-2694 samba (SWAT): XSS flaw in Change Password page

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the chg_passwd function in web/swat.c in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.x before 3.5.10 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter to the passwd program (aka the user field to the Change Password page).

Find out more about CVE-2011-2694 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (samba3x) RHSA-2011:1220 2011-08-29
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (samba) RHSA-2011:1221 2011-08-29
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (samba) RHSA-2011:1219 2011-08-29
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (samba) RHSA-2011:1219 2011-08-29

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 samba4 Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Samba project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Nobuhiro Tsuji of NTT DATA SECURITY CORPORATION as the original reporter.

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