Cross-site request forgery in CakePHP - CVE-2015-8379
Published: January 26, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40507
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-2015-8379
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: CakePHP
Affected software:
CakePHP
CakePHP
Detailed vulnerability 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-8379
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Sources
- http://bakery.cakephp.org/2015/11/29/cakephp_315_released.html
- http://blog.mindedsecurity.com/2016/01/request-parameter-method-may-lead-to.html
- http://karmainsecurity.com/KIS-2016-01
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135301/CakePHP-3.2.0-CSRF-Bypass.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/42
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537317/100/0/threaded
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/0f818a23a876c01429196bf7623e1e94a50230f0