CVE-2024-54792 in SpagoBI
Summary
by MITRE • 01/21/2025
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability has been found in SpagoBI v3.5.1 in the user administration panel. An authenticated user can lead another user into executing unwanted actions inside the application they are logged in, like adding, editing or deleting users.
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Analysis
by VulDB Data Team • 07/03/2025
The vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-54792 represents a critical Cross-Site Request Forgery flaw within the SpagoBI v3.5.1 platform, specifically affecting the user administration panel functionality. This vulnerability stems from the application's insufficient validation of cross-origin requests, allowing malicious actors to exploit the trust relationship between authenticated users and the application's backend services. The flaw exists in the web application's request handling mechanism where it fails to properly verify the origin of requests originating from legitimate user sessions, creating an exploitable gap in the application's security controls. The vulnerability is particularly concerning as it operates within the user administration panel, a critical component that handles sensitive user management operations.
The technical implementation of this CSRF vulnerability manifests through the absence of proper anti-forgery tokens or origin validation mechanisms within the user administration endpoints. When an authenticated user navigates to a malicious site or receives a crafted payload, the application processes requests without verifying that they originated from the legitimate application interface. This weakness allows attackers to construct malicious requests that appear to come from authenticated users, leveraging their session cookies and established trust relationships. The vulnerability operates at the application layer and can be exploited through various vectors including email phishing campaigns, compromised websites, or social engineering attacks that trick users into clicking malicious links or visiting harmful content. The flaw essentially removes the application's ability to distinguish between legitimate user-initiated requests and those crafted by attackers.
The operational impact of this vulnerability is severe and multifaceted, as it directly compromises the integrity and confidentiality of user management operations within SpagoBI. An attacker with access to a victim's authenticated session can perform unauthorized actions including creating new user accounts with elevated privileges, modifying existing user permissions, or deleting user accounts entirely. This capability undermines the application's access control mechanisms and can lead to privilege escalation, data manipulation, and potential complete system compromise. The vulnerability affects the application's user administration panel, which is a critical administrative function, making it particularly dangerous for organizations relying on SpagoBI for business intelligence and data analytics. The impact extends beyond immediate user management operations to potentially affect data governance, audit trails, and overall system security posture.
Organizations affected by this vulnerability should implement immediate mitigations including the deployment of anti-forgery tokens for all user administration endpoints, implementation of strict origin validation checks, and enforcement of same-site cookies for session management. The recommended approach aligns with CWE-352, which specifically addresses Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities, and follows ATT&CK technique T1531 for ensuring the integrity of user session management. Additional security controls should include monitoring for unusual administrative activities, implementing multi-factor authentication for administrative accounts, and conducting regular security assessments of web application components. The fix should involve comprehensive code review of all administrative endpoints, implementation of proper request validation mechanisms, and ensuring that all user management operations require explicit confirmation tokens that are tied to the user's current session state. Organizations should also consider implementing web application firewalls to detect and block suspicious cross-origin requests while maintaining audit logs of all administrative activities for forensic analysis purposes.