Open-AudIT Professional 2.1 cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Open-AudIT Professional 2.1. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2018-8979. The attack can be executed remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Open-AudIT Professional 2.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. 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. CVE summarizes:

Open-AudIT Professional 2.1 has CSRF, as demonstrated by modifying a user account or inserting XSS sequences via the credentials URI.

The bug was discovered 03/24/2018. The weakness was released 03/25/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at nileshsapariya.blogspot.ae. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-8979 since 03/24/2018. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

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 1 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 (44360). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-114931. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

Productinfo

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Open-AudIT Professional

Version

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 3.9
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Countermeasuresinfo

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Timelineinfo

03/24/2018 🔍
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03/25/2018 +1 days 🔍
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03/26/2018 +1 days 🔍
03/06/2025 +2537 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: nileshsapariya.blogspot.ae
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2018-8979 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-8979
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-115016
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/26/2018 10:03
Updated: 03/06/2025 18:54
Changes: 03/26/2018 10:03 (56), 01/16/2020 15:56 (4), 03/06/2025 18:54 (19)
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