Cross-site request forgery in Kaspersky Anti-Virus - CVE-2017-9813
Published: June 29, 2017 / Updated: September 14, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7234
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9813
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTML code from user-supplied input by the Web Management Console. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary scripting code that originate from the site running the Kaspersky Anti-Virus software and will run in the security context of that site and access the target user's cookies (including authentication cookies)
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in cross-site request forgery conducting.Affected software
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
How to mitigate CVE-2017-9813
Update to version 8.0.4.312.