SB2017081730 - Cross-site request forgery in hawtio
Published: August 17, 2017 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017081730
CSH Severity
High
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7556)
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 perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as be submitted to hawtio server on behalf of the user.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.