Cross-site request forgery in Philips e-Alert Unit - CVE-2018-8844
Published: August 31, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14585
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-2018-8844
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to the web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted specially crafted HTML page or URL, conduct cross-site request forgery attack and perform arbitrary actions.
Affected software
Philips e-Alert Unit
How to mitigate CVE-2018-8844
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any solutions addressing the vulnerability.