Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the management login GUI page in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) before 2.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username field, as demonstrated by injecting an IFRAME element into the event log, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0545.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator Management GUI - HTML Injection EDB-17026 · webapps · Mar 23, 2011
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- symantec-lua-gui-csrf(66213) vdb-entry
- http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2011-001.txt
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2011&suid=20110321_00
- 46856 vdb-entry
- 8166 third-party-advisory
- 17026 exploit
- ADV-2011-0727 vdb-entry
- 1025242 vdb-entry
- 20110322 NSOADV-2011-001: Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator CSRF vulnerability mailing-list