A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in koha up to 3.14.15/3.16.11/3.18.9/3.20.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file members/memberentry.pl. The manipulation of the argument addshelf as part of a Parameter 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. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Koha 3.14.x before 3.14.16, 3.16.x before 3.16.12, 3.18.x before 3.18.08, and 3.20.x before 3.20.1 allow remote attackers to (1) hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create a user via a request to members/memberentry.pl or (2) give a user superlibrarian permission via a request to members/member-flags.pl or (3) hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the addshelf parameter to opac-shelves.pl.

The bug was discovered 06/25/2015. The weakness was published 10/18/2018 as EDB-ID 37389 as not defined exploit (Exploit-DB). The advisory is available at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-4630 since 06/16/2015. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1211 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 3.14.16, 3.16.12, 3.18.10 or 3.20.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (37389). Similar entry is available at 125751.

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• koha

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12
• 3.13
• 3.14
• 3.14.0
• 3.14.1
• 3.14.2
• 3.14.3
• 3.14.4
• 3.14.5
• 3.14.6
• 3.14.7
• 3.14.8
• 3.14.9
• 3.14.10
• 3.14.11
• 3.14.12
• 3.14.13
• 3.14.14
• 3.14.15
• 3.15
• 3.16
• 3.16.0
• 3.16.1
• 3.16.2
• 3.16.3
• 3.16.4
• 3.16.5
• 3.16.6
• 3.16.7
• 3.16.8
• 3.16.9
• 3.16.10
• 3.16.11
• 3.17
• 3.18
• 3.18.0
• 3.18.1
• 3.18.2
• 3.18.3
• 3.18.4
• 3.18.5
• 3.18.6
• 3.18.7
• 3.18.8
• 3.18.9
• 3.19
• 3.20

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