ownCloud up to 4.5.6 operation cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in ownCloud. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation of the argument operation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2013-0299. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in ownCloud (Cloud Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument operation 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. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in ownCloud before 4.0.12 and 4.5.x before 4.5.7 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that (1) change the timezone for the user via the lat and lng parameters to apps/calendar/ajax/settings/guesstimezone.php, (2) disable or enable the automatic timezone detection via the timezonedetection parameter to apps/calendar/ajax/settings/timezonedetection.php, (3) import user accounts via the admin_export parameter to apps/admin_migrate/settings.php, (4) overwrite user files via the operation parameter to apps/user_migrate/ajax/export.php, or (5) change the authentication server URL via unspecified vectors to apps/user_ldap/settings.php.

The weakness was presented 03/14/2014 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at owncloud.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2013-0299 since 12/06/2012. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 4.0.8 eliminates this vulnerability.

See VDB-66670 and VDB-66669 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Cloud Software

Name

• ownCloud

Version

• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 4.0.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.0.5
• 4.0.6
• 4.0.7
• 4.0.8
• 4.0.9
• 4.0.10
• 4.0.11
• 4.5.0
• 4.5.1
• 4.5.2
• 4.5.3
• 4.5.4
• 4.5.5
• 4.5.6

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• open-source

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