Cross-site request forgery in ClickHouse - CVE-2018-14668

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Cross-site request forgery in ClickHouse - CVE-2018-14668

Published: August 15, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU30818
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14668
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: ClickHouse
Affected software:
ClickHouse

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

In ClickHouse before 1.1.54388, "remote" table function allowed arbitrary symbols in "user", "password" and "default_database" fields which led to Cross Protocol Request Forgery Attacks.


How to mitigate CVE-2018-14668

Install update from vendor's website.

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