National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-1459

Overview

The default configuration of ASP.NET in Mono before 2.6.4 has a value of FALSE for the EnableViewStateMac property, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by the __VIEWSTATE parameter to 2.0/menu/menu1.aspx in the XSP sample project.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 40351

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40351

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mono-project.com/Vulnerabilities#ASP.NET_View_State_Cross-Site_Scripting

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mono-project.com/Vulnerabilities#ASP.NET_View_State_Cross-Site_Scripting

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.communities.hp.com/securitysoftware/blogs/spilabs/archive/2010/04/29/asp-net-cross-site-scripting-followup-mono.aspx

Hyperlink:http://www.communities.hp.com/securitysoftware/blogs/spilabs/archive/2010/04/29/asp-net-cross-site-scripting-followup-mono.aspx

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:014

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:013

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:012

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html