Cross-site request forgery in Fedora and phpMyAdmin - CVE-2015-2206
Published: March 9, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40876
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2206
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Fedoraproject
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin
Affected software:
Fedora
phpMyAdmin
Fedora
phpMyAdmin
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-2015-2206
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151331.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151914.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151931.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00008.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3382
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:186
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2015-1.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72949
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031871
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/b2f1e895038a5700bf8e81fb9a5da36cbdea0eeb