Hexis HawkEye 3.0.1.4912 json ID cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Hexis HawkEye 3.0.1.4912. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file interface/rest/accounts/json. Performing a manipulation of the argument ID as part of Parameter results in cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-2878. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Hexis HawkEye 3.0.1.4912. It has been classified as problematic. This affects some unknown processing of the file interface/rest/accounts/json. The manipulation of the argument id as part of a Parameter 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 integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Hexis HawkEye G 3.0.1.4912 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) add arbitrary accounts via the name parameter to interface/rest/accounts/json; turn off the (2) Url matching, (3) DNS Inject, or (4) IP Redirect Sensor in a request to interface/rest/dpi/setEnabled/1; or (5) perform whitelisting of malware MD5 hash IDs via the id parameter to interface/rest/md5-threats/whitelist.

The bug was discovered 07/24/2015. The weakness was published 10/23/2017 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2015-2878 since 04/03/2015. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details and a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by hyp3rlinx and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download 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 822 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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 (37686). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Hexis

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• HawkEye

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• 3.0.1.4912

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