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Netegrity SiteMinder does not adequately validate user input thereby allowing user to bypass filters via crafted URL

Vulnerability Note VU#837419

Original Release Date: 2002-10-29 | Last Revised: 2002-10-29

Overview

Netegrity SiteMinder does adequately vaildate HTTP requests containing malicious Unicode encodings.

Description

Netegrity SiteMinder is a platform for securing multiple web applications through a single point of user authentication. SiteMinder does not properly filter HTTP requests when those requests contain Unicode encodings.

Impact

The complete impact of this vulnerability is not yet known.

Solution

Netegrity has reportedly released a patch, available from:

http://support.netegrity.com/

Vendor Information

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Netegrity Affected

Notified:  September 24, 2002 Updated: October 28, 2002

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

A security advisory was posted and the fix was provided on August 16, 2001 to address this valnerability. Customers can download the fix from our support site https://support.netegrity.com/

Applies to VersionPatch3.6sp2
Hot Fix #Hotfix BG_2- 7349
https://support.netegrity.com/prod_loader.cfm?download_id=35&DownloadCount=0&doc_name=HotfixBG_2-7349.zip

Applies to VersionPatch4.11
Hot Fix #V4QMR1 to 4.11 WebAgents
https://support.netegrity.com/prod_loader.cfm?download_id=33&DownloadCount=0&doc_name=V4QMR1.zip

Applies to VersionPatch4.51sp1
Hot Fix #V4QMR1 for 4.5.1 WebAgents
https://support.netegrity.com/prod_loader.cfm?download_id=33&DownloadCount=0&doc_name=V4QMR1.zip

Applies to VersionPatch4.6.1
Hot Fix #V4QMR1 for 4.6.1
https://support.netegrity.com/prod_loader.cfm?download_id=33&DownloadCount=0&doc_name=V4QMR1.zip

Applies to VersionPatch4.6.1.xJ
Hot Fix #4.xQMR1-J Binaries
https://support.netegrity.com/prod_loader.cfm?download_id=34&DownloadCount=0&doc_name=V4QMR1-J-binaries.zip

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.

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References

http://support.netegrity.com/

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the SANS Institute for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Shawn Van Ittersum.

Other Information

CVE IDs: None
Severity Metric: 2.84
Date Public: 2001-08-24
Date First Published: 2002-10-29
Date Last Updated: 2002-10-29 16:06 UTC
Document Revision: 4

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