Re: Question about Plugin 19228 - GroupWise WebAccess Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

"George A. Theall" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sep 20, 2008, at 12:38 AM, Miriam Levenstein wrote:

> Plugin 19228 reports the presence of a GroupWise WebAccess  
> vulnerability based on the version returned by the host’s GroupWise  
> program. The vulnerability is present in versions lower than 6.5.5.  
> The plugin checks this page on the host -- /com/novell/webaccess/ 
> palm/en/aboutpqa.htm – to determine the GroupWise version.
...
> I wonder if the “aboutpqa.htm” page is the best place for the plugin  
> to look to determine the WebAccess version. It seems that the main  
> program can be upgraded without affecting that page.

I don't think it is either given this. I've changed the plugin so it  
only runs if Report Paranoia is set to Paranoid, at least until a  
better check can be found.

George
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