#VU25042 Cross-site request forgery in phpPgAdmin - CVE-2019-10784
Published: February 7, 2020 / Updated: November 7, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU25042
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10784
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
phpPgAdmin
phpPgAdmin
Software vendor:
phpPgAdmin Development Team
phpPgAdmin Development Team
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, such as be leveraged by a remote attacker to trick a logged-in administrator to visit a malicious page with a CSRF exploit and execute arbitrary system commands on the server.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.