Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Motorola SB5100 Cable Modem, which could be exploited to conduct cross site request forgery attacks. This issue is caused by a design error in the web interface when processing user-supplied data and requests, which could be exploited by attackers to cause an administrator to restart or disconnect and affected device when visiting a specially crafted web page.

Affected Products

Motorola SB5100 Cable Modem

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1390
http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=4
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/643049

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Rook Security.

ChangeLog

2008-04-30 : Initial release

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