Vulnerability 220930 - CERT Civis.Net

Vulnerability Name:

CCN-220930

Published:

2017-01-03

Updated:

2017-01-03

Summary:

Spring Security is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the SwitchUserFilter component. By persuading an authenticated user to visit a malicious Web site, a remote attacker could send a malformed HTTP request to perform unauthorized actions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning, and other malicious activities.

CVSS v3 Severity:

6.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
5.5 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Low Integrity (I): Low Availibility (A): Low

CVSS v2 Severity:

6.5 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): Partial

Vulnerability Consequences:

Gain Access

References:

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
springsecurity-switchuserfilter-csrf(220930)

Source: CCN
Type: Spring Security GIT Repository
SwitchUserFilter Defaults to POST

Source: CCN
Type: WhiteSource Vulnerability Database
WS-2017-3767

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration CCN 1:

cpe:/a:vmware:spring_security:4.2.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:vmware:spring_security:5.0.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:vmware:spring_security:5.1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:vmware:spring_security:5.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:vmware:spring_security:5.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

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