SB2012092010 - Cross-site request forgery in H-Sphere

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-5004)

CWE-ID: CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and hijack the authentication of admins for requests that (1) add group plans via admin/group_plans.html or (2) add extra packages via admin/extra_packs/create_extra_pack.

Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

References

• http://osvdb.org/78505
• http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/108972/VL-392.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47556
• http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=392
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72628