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Alan,<br>
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You are correct - any embedded HTML tags do get presented verbatim
back through the Xymon web interface. I dealt with this for a
Windows event log processing test I wrote which was getting a
similar issue with Blackberry server events.<br>
<br>
In fact any status message can include HTML (and many tests do by
design).<br>
<br>
The msgs reporting can be in effect used as a XSS vector if the
right kind of log message can trigger being displayed in the Xymon
web interface. If a message is going to be embedded inside
<PRE> tags it's probably worth quoting HTML entities along the
way.<br>
<br>
David.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";">I am using Xymon
4.3.2 on RHEL5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";">It looks like
Xymon is interpreting the contents of the logfile as HTML<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";">When it gets
displayed to the screen I see this..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">but the actual log entry (and when I view
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