Security vulnerability -XSS : CVE-2007-5923 Vulnerability via SiteMinder

Products

• CA Single Sign On Agents (SiteMinder)

Issue/Introduction

Webserver's integrated with a 12.52 WebAgent is vulnerable to the CVE-2007-5923 

Environment

Release : 12.52

All Webservers

Cause

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2007-5923/

 

Resolution

->  Login to WAMUI and search for the ACO used for the webagent.

-> Modify the ACO and add the aco parameter as below.

"FCCHTMLEncodingChars"  and set the value to  "\"

-> Save the ACO settings

-> Stop / Start the webagent

->Check the webagent logs should display this value as below.

fcchtmlencodingchars='\'.

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