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php-font-lib - Subset maker (make_subset.php) Reflected Cross-site Scripting
Revision 1.0
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Author: Daniel C. Marques (@0xc0da)
Release date: 2014-03-23
Reference: http://codalabs.net/cla-2014-001
Disclosure Timeline
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2014-03-19 - Developer notified.
2014-03-19 - Developer patch.
2014-03-20 - CVE-2014-2570 assigned.
2014-03-23 - Public disclosure.
Product Information
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Product: php-font-lib
Description: A library to read, parse, export and make subsets of different types of font files.
Developer: Fabien Ménager
Website: https://github.com/PhenX/php-font-lib
Overview
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The Subset maker of the affected php-font-lib versions is vulnerable to a Reflected Cross-site Scripting. This vulnerability might allow remote unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript or HTML via the ‘name’ parameter. This flaw exists because the contents of ‘name’ are not sanitized before it is inserted in the web page.
Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-site Scripting
CVE Identifier: CVE-2014-2570
CVSSv2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
CWE Identifier: CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected releases: 0.3
Vulnerability details
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The make_subset.php script in the ‘www’ directory does not sanitize the contents of the ‘name’ parameter before echoing it to the user. The vulnerable piece of code is shown below:
<h1><?php echo $name ?></h1>
This vulnerability can be used to inject Javascript code to be rendered by the browser. An attacker must trick the user to access a crafted URL (using social engineering, e.g.) for a successful attack.
Proof-of-Concept
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http://www.example.com/php-font-lib/www/make_subset.php?fontfile=../fonts/Norasi.ttf&name=<script>alert('XSS')</script>
Solution
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The developer informed that version 0.3.1 fixes the issue.
Credits
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Vulnerability identified and reported by Daniel C. Marques (@0xc0da).
References
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[1] https://github.com/PhenX/php-font-lib
[2] https://github.com/PhenX/php-font-lib/releases/tag/0.3.1
[3] https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
[4] http://codalabs.net/cla-2014-001
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