DDIVRT-2009-21 vBook Login Application Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability

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Title
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DDIVRT-2009-21 vBook Login Application Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability

Severity
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Low

Date Discovered
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January 19th, 2009

Discovered By
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Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research Team
Credit: David Marshall and r@b13$

Vulnerability Description
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Alterations of the title and message parameters in vBook allow attacks to specify arbitrary web or scripting content. 
This allows scripting tags to be executed by the browser to perform XSS attacks. Such an attack would require 
convincing a user to click on a specially crafted link.

Solution Description
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No patch is available at this time.

Tested Systems / Software (with versions)
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Windows Server 2003, IIS vBook v 4.2.17

Vendor Contact
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Vendor Name: Retrieve Technologies, Inc.
Vendor Website: http://www.retrieve.com/index.html