CVE-2014-5391 DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in "JobScheduler"

[Christian Schneider <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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CVE-2014-5391
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"DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)" (CWE-79) vulnerability in "JobScheduler" 
product


Vendor
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Software- & Organisations-Service GmbH


Product
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"JobScheduler is a workload automation tool. It is used to launch JobScheduler 
objects, 
such as jobs and/or orders, at the occurrence of time, file or calendar events. 
JobScheduler 
was recognised in 2012 by Gartner Inc. with a placement in their Magic Quadrant 
for workload 
automation. JobScheduler provides solutions from simple to complex scheduling 
scenarios. 
It is available with an open source or a commercial licence."
 - source: 
http://www.sos-berlin.com/modules/cjaycontent/index.php?id=osource_scheduler_introduction_en.htm


Affected versions
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This vulnerability affects versions of JobScheduler prior to 1.7.4241 
as well as versions prior to 1.6.4246.


Patch
===================
The vendor has released patches for versions 1.7.x and 1.6.x at 
http://www.sos-berlin.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=73
http://www.sos-berlin.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=74


Reported by
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This issue was reported to the vendor by Christian Schneider (@cschneider4711) 
following a responsible disclosure process.


Severity
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Medium


Description
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Using a specially crafted request to access the web interface of JobScheduler 
it 
is possible to execute DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The 
content of 
the hash-part is written using document.write() from location.hash directly 
into the HTML, 
resulting in the DOM-based XSS.


Proof of concept
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Due to the responsible disclosure process chosen and to not harm unpatched 
systems, 
no concrete exploit code will be presented in this advisory.


References
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http://www.sos-berlin.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=73
http://www.sos-berlin.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=74
http://www.christian-schneider.net/advisories/CVE-2014-5391.txt

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