SB2018080626 - Cross-site request forgery in Debian Linux
Published: August 6, 2018 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018080626
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16653)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as then be used in an HTTPS context to do CSRF attacks.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.