Cross-site request forgery in SearchBlox - CVE-2018-11538
Published: June 13, 2018 / Updated: June 17, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13335
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11538
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attack.
The weakness exists in servlet/UserServlet due to insufficient validation of user-suppliedinput passed via the u_name, u_passwd1, u_passwd2, role, and X-XSRF-TOKEN POST parameters. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted HTML page or URL, trick the victim into visiting it, bypass CSRF Token gain access to the system and perform arbitrary actions.
The weakness exists in servlet/UserServlet due to insufficient validation of user-suppliedinput passed via the u_name, u_passwd1, u_passwd2, role, and X-XSRF-TOKEN POST parameters. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted HTML page or URL, trick the victim into visiting it, bypass CSRF Token gain access to the system and perform arbitrary actions.
Affected software
SearchBlox
How to mitigate CVE-2018-11538
Install update from vendor's website.