Cross-site request forgery in Couchbase Server - CVE-2020-9042

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Cross-site request forgery in Couchbase Server - CVE-2020-9042

Published: June 8, 2020 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU34365
CSH Severity: High
CVSSv4.0: 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-2020-9042
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Couchbase Server
Software vendor:
Couchbase

Description

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 crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as be used to perform a CSRF attack if an administrator has used their browser to check the results of a REST API request.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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