Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Internet Explorer EUC-JP Character Encoding Cross Site Scripting - Ver2 (CVE-2013-3192)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2015-0349
Date Published: 26 Mar 2015
Severity: High
Last Updated: Thursday 26 March, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-3192
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A universal cross site scripting vulnerability exists in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to the way that IE handles EUC-JP character encoding. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting specially crafted HTML code into a target web site that uses EUC-JP character encoding, such as a web forum or social networking site. In the case of successful exploitation, arbitrary attacker code would run in the target users' browsers in the security context of the affected web site.

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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Internet Explorer EUC-JP Character Encoding Cross Site Scripting - Ver2 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 Internet Explorer EUC-JP Character Encoding Cross Site Scripting - Ver2

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