11013 : Serendipity index.php Requested URL HTTP Response Splitting
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
4	928	over 7 years ago	over 3 years ago	0 times	90%

Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2004-10-21	2004-10-22

Description

Serendipity contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to perform HTTP response splitting on the index.php page. The issue is triggered when unexpected carriage return and/or line feed (CR/LF) characters are input into the HTTP request stream. It is possible that the flaw may allow man-in-the-middle attacks and or cross-site-scripting attacks, resulting in a loss of confidentiality and/or integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality, Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.7-rc1 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

S9Y

Serendipity

0.7betax

References

Security Tracker: 1011864
Related OSVDB ID: 11013 11038 11039
Bugtraq ID: 11497
Secunia Advisory ID: 12909
ISS X-Force ID: 17798
CVE ID: 2004-1620 (see also: NVD)
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-10/0219.html
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109841283115808&w=2
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/php-blog/serendipity/comment.php?rev=1.49&view=markup
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/php-blog/serendipity/exit.php?rev=1.10&view=markup
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/php-blog/serendipity/index.php?rev=1.52&view=markup
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=276694
http://www.s9y.org/5.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=276694
Vendor URL: http://www.s9y.org/

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Chaotic Evil - chaoticevilspyring.com -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-06-01 | Disagree?

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