Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator up to 2.2.2.8 adduser.do Admin userRole cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator up to 2.2.2.8. Affected is the function Admin of the file adduser.do. The manipulation of the argument userRole with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in adduser.do in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) before 2.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new administrative accounts, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via the userRole parameter.

The bug was discovered 07/14/2010. The weakness was disclosed 03/21/2011 by Nikolas Sotiriu (Website). The advisory is shared for download at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2011-0545. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details and a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by Nikolas Sotiriu in Perl and been published 2 days after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 251 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 53209 (Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator < 2.3 CSRF (SYM11-005)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses.

Upgrading to version 2.2.2.9 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (66213), Exploit-DB (17026), Tenable (53209), SecurityFocus (BID 46856†) and OSVDB (71261†). The entry VDB-56955 is pretty similar.

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Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Nikolas Sotiriu
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Nessus ID: 53209
Nessus Name: Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator < 2.3 CSRF (SYM11-005)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: LiveUpdate Administrator 2.2.2.9

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Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Researcher: Nikolas Sotiriu
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-0545 (🔍)
X-Force: 66213
SecurityFocus: 46856 - Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator Management GUI HTML Injection Vulnerability
Secunia: 43820
OSVDB: 71261 - Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator Multiple Admin Function CSRF
Vulnerability Center: 30748 - Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator before 2.3 Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/20/2015 04:16 PM
Updated: 10/21/2021 12:30 PM
Changes: 03/20/2015 04:16 PM (64), 03/20/2017 09:25 AM (17), 10/21/2021 12:23 PM (5), 10/21/2021 12:30 PM (1)
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