Koha Libraries up to 3.14.15/3.16.11/3.20.0 cross-site request forgery

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Koha Libraries up to 3.14.15/3.16.11/3.20.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2015-4639. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Koha Libraries up to 3.14.15/3.16.11/3.20.0. This issue affects an unknown functionality. 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 integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Koha Libraries 3.20.x before 3.20.1, 3.14.x before 3.14.16, 3.16.x before 3.16.12 allow remote attackers to (1) hijack the authentication of users with access to the OPAC interface and who have permissions to create public lists for requests that inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the addshelf parameter to opac-shelves.pl, (2) hijack the authentication of users with access to the OPAC interface and who have permissions to create public lists for requests that inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an unspecified list name parameter to opac-addbybiblionumber.pl, (3) hijack the authentication of library administrator users for requests that execute arbitrary web script or HTML via virtualshelves/shelves.pl when a shelf name contains web script or HTML, or (4) hijack the authentication of users with access to the OPAC interface and who have permissions to create public lists for requests that execute arbitrary web script or HTML by adding a biblio to a list whose name contains web script or HTML.

The bug was discovered 06/18/2015. The weakness was disclosed 07/21/2017 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugs.koha-community.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-4639 since 06/16/2015. 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. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 764 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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

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• Koha

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• Libraries

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
• 3.19
• 3.20.0

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