DirectAdmin v1.403 - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

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Title:
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DirectAdmin v1.403 - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability


Date:
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2012-04-02


References:
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http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=486


VL-ID:
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486


Introduction:
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DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based web hosting control panel designed to make 
administration 
of websites easier. DirectAdmin is compatible with several versions of Red Hat, 
Fedora Core, Red 
Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Debian.DirectAdmin is often 
called DA for short

(Copy of the Vendor Homepage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectAdmin )


Abstract:
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A Vulnerability Laboratory Researcher discovered  a Cross Site Scripting 
Vulnerability on DirectAdmins Management Web-Application.


Report-Timeline:
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2012-03-31:     Vendor Notification
2012-04-01:     Vendor Response/Feedback
2012-04-02:     Public or Non-Public Disclosure



Status:
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Published


Affected Products:
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JBMC Software
Product: DirectAdmin - Web Control Panel vv1.403


Exploitation-Technique:
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Remote


Severity:
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Low


Details:
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A client side cross site scripting vulnerability is detected on DirectAdmins 
Management Web-Application.
The vulnerability allows an attacker with higher privileged user account to 
hijack customer/moderator/admin sessions with high required user inter 
action. Successful exploitation can result in account steal or client side 
context manipulation when processing affected module
application requests.

Vulnerable Module(s):
                                      [+] CMD DOMAIN - &domain=

Picture(s):
                                      ../1.png


Proof of Concept:
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The vulnerability can be exploited by remote attacker with medium required user 
inter action. For demonstration or reproduce ...

https://website.directadmin:2222/CMD_DOMAIN?action=create&domain=<div 
style="border:1px solid red;width:300px;height:300px" 
onmouseover="alert(dawid)"></div>aaa.pl&ubandwidth=unlimited&uquota=unlimited&cgi=ON&php=ON


Solution:
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The issue will be addressed by direct-admin development team with the next 
update.


Risk:
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The security risk of the client side cross site scripting vulnerability is 
estimated as low.


Credits:
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Vulnerability Research Laboratory - Dawid Golak (dawid.golak@xxxxxxxxx)


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