OpenCA certificate cross-site request forgery
| openca-certificate-csrf (40476) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
OpenCA is vulnerable to a cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site and open a malicious image link, a remote attacker could send a specially-crafted HTTP request to cause the victim to issue certificates and possibly perform other arbitrary tasks. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning and other malicious activities.
Platforms Affected:
- OpenCA, OpenCA 0.9.2.5
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:34:58 +0100, OpenCA XSRF (CVE-2008-0556) at http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Feb/0308.html.
- OpenCA Web site, OpenCA Research Labs - OpenCA PKI (v0.9) Project at http://www.openca.org/projects/openca/.
- CVE-2008-0556: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in OpenCA PKI 0.9.2.5, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as authorized users via a link or IMG tag to RAServer.
- SA28951: OpenCA Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
- SECTRACK ID: 1019426: OpenCA Input Validation Hole Permits Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks
- US-CERT VU#264385: OpenCA allows Cross site request forgery (XSRF)
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-0588: OpenCA Data Processing Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities
Reported:
Feb 13, 2008
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