Overview
Google Mini and Google Search Appliance fail to properly handle UTF-7 encoded URIs. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read or modify data in web pages.
Description
Google Mini and Google Search Appliance fail to properly handle UTF-7 encoded URIs, possibly allowing a remote attacker to inject arbitrary content, including script. |
Impact
A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to read or modify data in web pages and web page related resources, such as cookies. |
Solution
Apply a Workaround Google has provided workarounds for their customers.
Disable scripting in your web browser, as specified in the Securing Your Web Browser document and the Malicious Web Scripts FAQ. Do not follow unsolicited links In order to convince users to visit their sites, attackers often use URL encoding, IP address variations, long URLs, intentional misspellings, and other techniques to create misleading links. Do not click on unsolicited links received in email, instant messages, web forums, or internet relay chat (IRC) channels. Type URLs directly into the browser to avoid these misleading links. While these are generally good security practices, following these behaviors will not prevent exploitation of this vulnerability in all cases, particularly if a trusted site has been compromised or allows cross-site scripting. |
Vendor Information
989144
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20061118/widespread-xss-for-google-search-appliance/
- http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?3,3109
- http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/81676
- https://support.google.com/enterprise/doc/mini/advisories/ga-2006-11-m.html
- https://support.google.com/enterprise/doc/gsa/advisories/ga-2006-11-g.html
Acknowledgements
This vulnerability was reported by Maluc to RSnake at ha.ckers.org and to John Herron at NIST.org
This document was written by Jeff Gennari, Ryan Giobbi, and Chris Taschner.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2006-6223 |
| Severity Metric: | 11.60 |
| Date Public: | 2006-11-17 |
| Date First Published: | 2006-12-05 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2006-12-15 18:13 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 27 |