VDB-122924 · CVE-2018-13394 · BID 105284

Atlassian Confluence Questions up to 2.6.5 acceptAnswer cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Atlassian Confluence Questions up to 2.6.5 and classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component acceptAnswer. Such manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-13394. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Atlassian Confluence Questions up to 2.6.5. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component acceptAnswer. 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:

The acceptAnswer resource in Atlassian Confluence Questions before version 2.6.6, the bundled version of Confluence Questions was updated to a fixed version in Confluence version 6.9.0, allows remote attackers to modify a comment into an answer via a Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability.

The bug was discovered 08/14/2018. The weakness was shared 08/15/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at jira.atlassian.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-13394 since 07/06/2018. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

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.

Upgrading to version 2.6.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 105284†). The entry VDB-122923 is related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Confluence Questions 2.6.6

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07/06/2018 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: atlassian.com

Advisory: jira.atlassian.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-13394 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-13394
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-122924
SecurityFocus: 105284 - Atlassian Confluence Questions CVE-2018-13394 Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/15/2018 19:41
Updated: 03/15/2020 20:50
Changes: 08/15/2018 19:41 (61), 03/15/2020 20:50 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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