Cross-site request forgery in Moodle and Fedora - CVE-2014-0010
Published: January 20, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42134
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0010
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: moodle.org
Fedoraproject
Fedoraproject
Affected software:
Moodle
Fedora
Moodle
Fedora
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-2014-0010
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Sources
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-42883
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-January/127510.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-January/127533.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/20/1
- http://osvdb.org/102261
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029649
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=252416