National Security Agency skills-service up to 2.12.5 video cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in National Security Agency skills-service up to 2.12.5. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /admin/projects/{projectname}/skills/{skillname}/video. The manipulation results in cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-39326. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in National Security Agency skills-service up to 2.12.5. Affected is an unknown function of the file /admin/projects/{projectname}/skills/{skillname}/video. The manipulation with an unknown input 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. CVE summarizes:

SkillTree is a micro-learning gamification platform. Prior to version 2.12.6, the endpoint `/admin/projects/{projectname}/skills/{skillname}/video` (and probably others) is open to a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. Due to the endpoint being CSRFable e.g POST request, supports a content type that can be exploited (multipart file upload), makes a state change and has no CSRF mitigations in place (samesite flag, CSRF token). It is possible to perform a CSRF attack against a logged in admin account, allowing an attacker that can target a logged in admin of Skills Service to modify the videos, captions, and text of the skill. Version 2.12.6 contains a patch for this issue.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-39326 since 06/21/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 2.12.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• National Security Agency

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• skills-service

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• 2.12.0
• 2.12.1
• 2.12.2
• 2.12.3
• 2.12.4
• 2.12.5

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