Cisco Linksys E1500/E2500 apply.cgi cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Linksys E1500/E2500 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the file apply.cgi. The manipulation with an unknown input 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 confidentiality, and integrity.

The bug was discovered 10/19/2012. The weakness was published 02/05/2013 by Michael Messner (m1k3) with s3cur1ty as m1adv2013-004 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at s3cur1ty.de. The vendor was not involved in the coordination of the public release. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2013-2678 since 03/22/2013. The attack may be launched remotely. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by m-1-k-3 and been published immediately after the advisory. 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 109 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

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 (24475). arstechnica.com is providing further details. Similar entries are available at 7439, 7608, 7609 and 7611.

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Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: m-1-k-3
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10/21/2012 +2 days 🔍
02/05/2013 +107 days 🔍
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03/22/2013 +39 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: m1adv2013-004
Researcher: Michael Messner (m1k3)
Organization: s3cur1ty
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2013-2678 (🔍)
X-Force: 84072
SecurityFocus: 57760
Secunia: 52985 - Linksys EA2700 Multiple Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
OSVDB: 89915

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 02/11/2013 11:58
Updated: 05/04/2021 14:54
Changes: 02/11/2013 11:58 (63), 04/16/2018 11:57 (1), 05/04/2021 14:52 (3), 05/04/2021 14:54 (18)
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Committer: olku

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