cPanel HTTP requests cross-site request forgery
| cpanel-http-csrf (42114) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
cPanel is vulnerable to multiple cross-site request forgeries, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. By persuading an authenticated victim with administrative privileges to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could send a malformed HTTP request to create a new database, add a new mysql or ftp user, add a cron entry, or perform other malicious activities such as cross-site scripting attacks or Web cache poisoning.
Platforms Affected:
- cPanel, cPanel 11.18.3 build ID 21703
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- cPanel Change Log, Release 23868, 2008-04-28 23:02:45, Change Log at http://changelog.cpanel.net/.
- Rook Security Blog Archive, April 17, 2008, cPanal CSRF at http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=7.
- CVE-2008-2043: Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in cPanel, possibly 11.18.3 and 11.19.3, allow remote attackers to (1) execute arbitrary code via the command1 parameter to frontend/x2/cron/editcronsimple.html, and perform various administrative actions via (2) frontend/x2/sql/adddb.html, (3) frontend/x2/sql/adduser.html, and (4) frontend/x2/ftp/doaddftp.html.
- SA30027: cPanel Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities
- US-CERT VU#584089: cPanel XSRF vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-1401: cPanel Data Handling Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities
Reported:
Apr 17, 2008
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