Vulnerability Note VU#716144

Verity Ultraseek contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the processing of search requests

Overview

Verity's Ultraseek application contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the processing of search requests.

I. Description

Verity Ultraseek is a web site search engine application. Ultraseek contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the processing of search requests. More information about cross-site scripting can be found in CERT Advisory CA-2000-02.

II. Impact

An attacker may be able to obtain sensitive data from a web site that uses Ultraseek. Depending on the nature of the web site, this data may include passwords, credit card numbers, and any arbitrary information provided by the user. Likewise, information stored in cookies could be stolen or corrupted.

III. Solution

Install an update

According to Verity, this issue is resolved by upgrading to Ultraseek 5.3.3.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Verity	Vulnerable	10-Feb-2005

References

http://mikx.de/index.php?p=6
https://customers.verity.com/
http://secunia.com/advisories/14367/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12617
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/19430
http://osvdb.org/displayvuln.php?osvdb_id=14045

Credit

Thanks to Michael Krax for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

Date Public:	2004-12-23
Date First Published:	2005-02-21
Date Last Updated:	2005-03-10
CERT Advisory:	CA-2000-02
CVE-ID(s):	CAN-2005-0514
NVD-ID(s):	CAN-2005-0514
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	7.42
Document Revision:	17

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