CSRF in phpPgAdmin

1) Cross-site request forgery

EUVDB-ID: #VU25042

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 5.3 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10784

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 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 leveraged by a remote attacker to trick a logged-in administrator to visit a malicious page with a CSRF exploit and execute arbitrary system commands on the server.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

phpPgAdmin: 0.5.0 - 7.12.1

External links

http://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PHP-PHPPGADMINPHPPGADMIN-543885
http://github.com/snoopysecurity/Public/blob/master/phppgadmin%20CSRF%20Vulnerability.pdf

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

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

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

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