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Centreon 2.6.1 Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Medium
Advisory ID
ZSL-2015-5266
Release Date
26 September 2015
Vendor
Affected Version
2.6.1 (CES 3.2)
CVE
N/A
Tested On
CentOS 6.6 (Final), Apache/2.2.15, PHP/5.3.3
Summary

Centreon is the choice of some of the world's largest companies and mission-critical organizations for real-time IT performance monitoring and diagnostics management.

Description

Centreon suffers from a stored XSS vulnerability. Input passed thru the POST parameter 'img_comment' is not sanitized allowing the attacker to execute HTML code into user's browser session on the affected site.

Proof of Concept
Disclosure Timeline
10.08.2015Vulnerability discovered.
12.08.2015Vendor contacted.
13.08.2015Vendor replies asking more details.
13.08.2015Sent details to the vendor.
14.08.2015Vendor sends details to developing team.
19.08.2015Asked vendor for status update.
19.08.2015Vendor states that some issues were fixed in 2.6.2 and rest will be fixed in 2.6.3 or 2.7.
25.08.2015Asked vendor for status update.
25.08.2015Vendor will get back to us by 15th of September because of holidays.
16.09.2015No reply from the vendor.
17.09.2015Informed vendor about public release.
17.09.2015Vendor has released version 2.6.2 fixing the file upload issue. Remaining issues promised to be fixed in next release.
24.09.2015Vendor releases version 2.6.3 to fix remaining issues?
26.09.2015Public security advisory released.
Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic
References
Changelog
26.09.2015Initial release
07.10.2015Added reference [3], [4], [5] and [6]
10.11.2015Added reference [7]
21.11.2015Added reference [8]