GHSA-g5c6-w479-93xm

Mono ASP.NET View State Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2010-1459

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
NuGet	mono	< 2.6.4	2.6.4

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The default configuration of ASP.NET in Mono before 2.6.4 has a value of FALSE for the EnableViewStateMac property, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by the __VIEWSTATE parameter to 2.0/menu/menu1.aspx in the XSP sample project.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1459 advisory
https://github.com/mono/mono package
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html web
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html web
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html web
http://www.communities.hp.com/securitysoftware/blogs/spilabs/archive/2010/04/29/asp-net-cross-site-scripting-followup-mono.aspx web
http://www.mono-project.com/Vulnerabilities#ASP.NET_View_State_Cross-Site_Scripting web
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40351 web