CVE-2012-2172

medium
Published 2012-06-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SoftwareRegistration.do in the Storage Manager Profiler in IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager before 10.83.xx.18 on DS Series devices allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the updateRegn parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-19321 webapps windows text · 3 KB
LiquidWorm · 2012-06-21

IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager Profiler - Multiple Vulnerabilities

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager Profiler Multiple Vulnerabilities


Vendor: IBM Corporation
Product web page: http://www.ibm.com
Affected version: 4.8.6

Summary: Through its extraordinary flexibility, reliability, and performance,
the IBM® System Storage® series is designed to manage a broad scope of storage
workloads that exist in today’s complex data center and do it effectively and
efficiently. This flagship IBM disk system can bring simplicity to your storage
environment by supporting a mix of random and sequential I/O workloads for a mix
of interactive and batch applications, regardless of whether they are running on
one of today’s popular distributed server platforms or on the mainframe.

Desc: IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager Profiler suffers from an SQL Injection
and a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Input passed via the GET parameter
'selectedModuleOnly' in 'ModuleServlet.do' script is not properly sanitised before
being returned to the user or used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate
SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code. The GET parameter 'updateRegn' in the
'SoftwareRegistration.do' script is vulnerable to a XSS issue where the attacker can
execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an
affected site.

Tested on: Apache-Coyote/1.1
           MySQL


Vulnerabilities discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic
                              @zeroscience


Vendor status:

[03.03.2012] Vulnerabilities discovered.
[19.04.2012] Reported vulnerability report to vendor.
[19.04.2012] Vendor acknowledges receipt of the vulnerability report.
[25.04.2012] Asked vendor for confirmation.
[26.04.2012] Vendor confirms the issues, working on mitigation plan.
[01.05.2012] Vendor promises that the updated package will be available in June timeframe.
[05.06.2012] Asked vendor for status update.
[07.06.2012] Vendor replies.
[15.06.2012] Vendor releases fix.
[20.06.2012] Coordinated public security advisory released.


Advisory ID: ZSL-2012-5094
Advisory URL: http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2012-5094.php

IBM Advisory: https://www.ibm.com/connections/blogs/PSIRT/entry/secbulletin_stg-storage_cve-2012-2171_cve-2012-2172
IBM Fix: http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5090850&brandind=5000008&myns=x008&mync=R

ISS X-Force ID (SQLi): 75236
ISS X-Force URL: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/75236

ISS X-Force ID (XSS): 75239
ISS X-Force URL: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/75239

CVE ID (SQLi): CVE-2012-2171
CVE URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2171

CVE ID (XSS): CVE-2012-2172
CVE URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2172


03.03.2012

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XSS: http://10.1.0.3:9000/SoftwareRegistration.do?updateRegn="><script>alert(1);</script>

SQLi: http://10.1.0.3:9000/ModuleServlet?DeviceId=1&state=state_viewmodulelog&selectedModuleOnly=1[SQL QUERY]&selectedModule=1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmds_storage_manager_host_software{"endIncluding":"10.83"}
ibm ibmds_storage_manager_host_software10.8
ibm ibmds_storage_manager_host_software10.60.x5.14

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.