Cross-site request forgery in Debian Linux - CVE-2017-16653

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Cross-site request forgery in Debian Linux - CVE-2017-16653

Published: August 6, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU36785
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16653
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 crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as then be used in an HTTPS context to do CSRF attacks.


Affected software

Debian Linux
Fedora
php-symfony4

How to mitigate CVE-2017-16653

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

php-symfony4 - update to 4.0.1-1.fc27

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