Cross-site request forgery in Sametime - CVE-2016-2965

 

Cross-site request forgery in Sametime - CVE-2016-2965

Published: August 28, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8029
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2965
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: IBM Corporation
Affected software:
Sametime

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attack.

The weakness exists due to improper input validation. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted HTML page or URL, trick the victim into visiting it, gain access to the system and force the user to log out of Sametime.


How to mitigate CVE-2016-2965

Update to version 9.0.1 FP1.

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