Check Point Advisories

Microsoft HTML Sanitization Cross Site Scripting (MS13-035; CVE-2013-1289)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-1648
Date Published: 3 Apr 2013
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 03 November, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-1289
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that HTML strings are sanitized. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks against affected users, resulting in script execution in the target's security context.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft HTML Sanitization Cross Site Scripting (MS13-035) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft HTML Sanitization Cross Site Scripting (MS13-035)

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