Drupal 7.12 Admin Function cross-site request forgery ⚔ [Disputed]

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Drupal 7.12. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Admin Function. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2007-6752. The attack may be performed from remote. In addition, an exploit is available. The actual existence of this vulnerability is currently in question.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Drupal 7.12 (Content Management System). This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Admin Function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

** DISPUTED ** Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Drupal 7.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that end a session via the user/logout URI. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue, by considering the "security benefit against platform complexity and performance impact" and concluding that a change to the logout behavior is not planned because "for most sites it is not worth the trade-off."

The weakness was presented 03/02/2012 by Ivano Binetti (Website). The advisory is available at ivanobinetti.blogspot.com. The vendor was not involved in the coordination of the public release. This vulnerability was named CVE-2007-6752 since 03/27/2012. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by Ivano Binetti in HTML and been published immediately after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 13125 (Drupal Multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities).

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 databases at X-Force (73674), Exploit-DB (18564) and OSVDB (80665†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Content Management System

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• Drupal

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• 7.12

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• open-source

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• Product: https://www.drupal.org/

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