Check Point Advisories

PHPInfo Large Input Cross-Site Scripting (CVE-2006-0996)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2015-1047
Date Published: 25 Aug 2015
Severity: Medium
Last Updated: Tuesday 25 August, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2006-0996
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? PHP 4.x
PHP 5.0
PHP 5.1
Vulnerability Description PHP is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

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 PHPInfo Large Input Cross-Site Scripting 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:  PHPInfo Large Input Cross-Site Scripting

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