CVE-2010-1459

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-05-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The default configuration of ASP.NET in Mono before 2.6.4 has a value of FALSE for the EnableViewStateMac property, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by the __VIEWSTATE parameter to 2.0/menu/menu1.aspx in the XSP sample project.

Affected products

mono: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6 (+56)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
http://www.communities.hp.com/securitysoftware/blogs/spilabs/archive/2010/04/29/asp-net-cross-site-scripting-followup-mono.aspx
http://www.mono-project.com/Vulnerabilities#ASP.NET_View_State_Cross-Site_Scripting
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40351
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
http://www.communities.hp.com/securitysoftware/blogs/spilabs/archive/2010/04/29/asp-net-cross-site-scripting-followup-mono.aspx
http://www.mono-project.com/Vulnerabilities#ASP.NET_View_State_Cross-Site_Scripting
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40351

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