Drupal unspecified cross-site request forgery

drupal-unspecified-csrf (29679)

Medium Risk

Description:

Drupal is vulnerable to a cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by unspecified scripts. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially-crafted HTTP GET or POST requests to perform actions as a trusted user such as changing passwords or creating new users.

*CVSS:

Base Score:	4.2
Access Vector:	Remote
Access Complexity:	High
Authentication:	Not Required
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial
Temporal Score:	3.1
Exploitability:	Unproven
Remediation Level:	Official-Fix
Report Confidence:	Confirmed

Consequences:

Gain Access

Remedy:

Refer to Drupal Security Advisory DRUPAL-SA-2006-025 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.

References:

• BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Oct 19 2006 - 12:08:04 CDT : [DRUPAL-SA-2006-025] Drupal 4.6.10 / 4.7.4 fixes CRF issue.
• DRUPAL-SA-2006-025: Drupal core- Cross site request forgeries.
• CVE-2006-5476: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Drupal 4.6.x before 4.6.10 and 4.7.x before 4.7.4 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as an arbitrary user via unspecified vectors.
• OpenPKG-SA-2006.025: Drupal
• SA22486: Drupal Multiple Vulnerabilities
• VUPEN/ADV-2006-4120: Drupal Multiple Cross Site Scripting and Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities

Platforms Affected:

• Drupal Drupal 4.6.x
• Drupal Drupal 4.7.x

Reported:

Oct 18, 2006

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