Cross-site request forgery in Micro Focus Universal Configuration Management Database Server - CVE-2018-6497

 

Cross-site request forgery in Micro Focus Universal Configuration Management Database Server - CVE-2018-6497

Published: June 19, 2018 / Updated: June 19, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13393
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6497
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

Micro Focus Universal Configuration Management Database Server

How to mitigate CVE-2018-6497

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



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