Cross-site request forgery in IBM DataPower Gateway - CVE-2018-1661
Published: December 20, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16636
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1661
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 due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially specially crafted web page and execute malicious and unauthorized actions transmitted from a user that the website trusts.
Affected software
IBM DataPower Gateway
How to mitigate CVE-2018-1661
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