e107 CMS up to 0.7.22 Administrator Account cross-site request forgery

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in e107 CMS up to 0.7.22 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Administrator Account. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2010-5084. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in e107 CMS up to 0.7.22 (Content Management System). This issue affects an unknown part of the component Administrator Account. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection mechanism in e107 before 0.7.23 uses a predictable random token based on the creation date of the administrator account, which allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add new users via e107_admin/users.php.

The weakness was presented 02/14/2012 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securitytracker.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2010-5084 since 02/14/2012. The attack may be initiated remotely. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 0.7.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Secunia (SA41034†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1024351†). See VDB-56833 for similar entry. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• e107

Name

• CMS

Version

• 0.7.0
• 0.7.1
• 0.7.2
• 0.7.3
• 0.7.4
• 0.7.5
• 0.7.6
• 0.7.7
• 0.7.8
• 0.7.9
• 0.7.10
• 0.7.11
• 0.7.12
• 0.7.13
• 0.7.14
• 0.7.15
• 0.7.16
• 0.7.17
• 0.7.18
• 0.7.19
• 0.7.20
• 0.7.21
• 0.7.22

License

• open-source

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