Check Point Advisories

Microsoft SharePoint POST Cross-site Scripting (MS13-067; CVE-2013-3180)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-2907
Date Published: 10 Sep 2013
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 10 September, 2013
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-3180
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description An elevation of privilege exists in Microsoft SharePoint Server. This vulnerability is caused when a SharePoint Server does not properly sanitize the content of a specially crafted POST request. An authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a specially crafted POST request to a SharePoint server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could allow an attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks and run script in the security context of the logged-on user.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block malformed POST requests to the server.

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 SharePoint POST Cross-site Scripting (MS13-067) 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 Server Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft SharePoint POST Cross-site Scripting (MS13-067)

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