Cross-site request forgery in dnsdist - CVE-2017-7557

 

Cross-site request forgery in dnsdist - CVE-2017-7557

Published: August 22, 2017 / Updated: July 3, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU38443
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7557
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.


Affected software

dnsdist
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
Fedora
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
SUSE Package Hub 15
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
dnsdist
dnsdist-debuginfo
dnsdist-debugsource
libluajit-5_1-2
luajit-debuginfo
libluajit-5_1-2-debuginfo
luajit-debugsource
libluajit-5_1-2-32bit-debuginfo
libluajit-5_1-2-32bit
luajit-devel
luajit

How to mitigate CVE-2017-7557

Install update from vendor's website.

dnsdist - update to 1.2.0
dnsdist - addressed in versions 1.2.0-1.el7, 1.2.0-1.fc25, 1.2.0-1.fc26
dnsdist-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.8.0-150100.3.5.1, 1.8.0-150400.9.3.1
dnsdist - addressed in versions 1.8.0-150100.3.5.1, 1.8.0-150400.9.3.1
dnsdist-debugsource - addressed in versions 1.8.0-150100.3.5.1, 1.8.0-150400.9.3.1
libluajit-5_1-2 - update to 2.1.0~beta3+git.1624618403.e9577376-150400.4.2.1
luajit-debuginfo - update to 2.1.0~beta3+git.1624618403.e9577376-150400.4.2.1
libluajit-5_1-2-debuginfo - update to 2.1.0~beta3+git.1624618403.e9577376-150400.4.2.1
luajit-debugsource - update to 2.1.0~beta3+git.1624618403.e9577376-150400.4.2.1
libluajit-5_1-2-32bit-debuginfo - update to 2.1.0~beta3+git.1624618403.e9577376-150400.4.2.1
libluajit-5_1-2-32bit - update to 2.1.0~beta3+git.1624618403.e9577376-150400.4.2.1
luajit-devel - update to 2.1.0~beta3+git.1624618403.e9577376-150400.4.2.1
luajit - update to 2.1.0~beta3+git.1624618403.e9577376-150400.4.2.1

External References

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