Cross-site request forgery in Debian Linux

1) Cross-site request forgery

EUVDB-ID: #VU36785

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 5.4 [AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16653

CWE-ID: CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Exploit availability: No

Description

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.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

Debian Linux: 9.0

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

http://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/24992
http://symfony.com/blog/cve-2017-16653-csrf-protection-does-not-use-different-tokens-for-http-and-https
http://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4262

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.