National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2694

Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the chg_passwd function in web/swat.c in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.x before 3.5.10 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter to the passwd program (aka the user field to the Change Password page).

Description

Per: http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2011-2694 'Note that SWAT must be enabled in order for this vulnerability to be exploitable. By default, SWAT is *not* enabled on a Samba install.'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8289

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8289

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722537

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722537

External Source: XF

Name: samba-user-xss(68844)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/68844

External Source: BID

Name: 48901

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48901

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2011-2694

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2011-2694

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBNS02701

Hyperlink:http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c03008543

External Source: HP

Name: SSRT100598

Hyperlink:http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c03008543

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2290

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2290

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1182-1

Hyperlink:http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1182-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025852

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1025852

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45496

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45496

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45488

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45488

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45393

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45393

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.5.10.html

Hyperlink:http://samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.5.10.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 74072

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/74072