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Kemp virtual load master is a virtual load-balancer appliance which comes with a web administrative interface. I had a chance to test it and this blog post summarises some of the most interesting vulnerabilities I have discovered and which have not been published yet. For those of you who want to try it as well, you can get a free trial version here:  http://kemptechnologies.com/server-load-balancing-appliances/virtual-loadbalancer/vlm-download By default, Kemp web administrative interface is protected by Basic authentication, so the vulnerabilities discussed in the post below can either be exploited attacking an authenticated user via CSRF or XSS based attacks. The following vulnerabilities were discovered when looking at Kemp Load Master v.7.1-16 and some of them should be fixed in the latest version (7.1-20b or later). Change logs of the fixed issues can be found at the following page: " PD-2183 Functions have been added to sanitize input in the WUI in order to   reso

Details Vendor Site: Avant browser ( www.avantbrowser.com ) Date: December, 5 2012 – CVE (TBA) Affected Software: Avant Browser Ultimate 2012 Build 28 and potentially previous versions Status: Unpatched Researcher: Roberto Suggi Liverani -  @malerisch PDF version: Avant_multiple_vulnerabilities_advisory.pdf Same of Origin Policy Bypass A malicious user can execute arbitrary JavaScript/HTML code on the privileged browser:home page from an untrusted web page on Internet (http:// zone). This is possible by creating an iframe element pointing to the browser:home page and then invoking privileged commands using a window object reference to the iframe element, as shown in the example below: <iframe name="test2" src=" browser:home "></iframe> <script> window['test2'].navigator.AFRunCommand(id_of_privileged_command, vstr) </script> This code allows interaction from an untrusted zone (http://) to a trusted and priv