Cross-site request forgery in Micro Focus Universal Configuration Management Database Server

1) Cross-site request forgery

EUVDB-ID: #VU13393

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 5.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6497

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

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists in Micro Focus Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB) Server due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim into loading a specially crafted HTML page or URL, perform CSRF attack, take actions on the target system acting as the target authenticated user and conduct  java object deserialization attacks.

Mitigation

Micro Focus has made the following mitigation information available to resolve the vulnerability for the impacted versions of UCMDB Server:

https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/km/KM03180030?lang=en&cc=us&hpappid=206728_SSO_PRO

Vulnerable software versions

Micro Focus Universal Configuration Management Database Server: 10.20 - 11.00

External links

http://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/document/-/facetsearch/document/KM03180069

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.