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>> cPanel Data Handling Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities
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Title : cPanel Data Handling Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1401
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2043
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-02
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in cPanel, which could be exploited to manipulate certain data. These issues are caused by errors in various scripts that do not validate user-supplied data and HTTP requests, which could be exploited by attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks and perform certain actions e.g. add a new mysql or ftp user, or a cron task by tricking a user into clicking a specially crafted link.
Affected Products
cPanel versions 11.x
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1401
http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=7
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/584089
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Rook Security.
ChangeLog
2008-05-02 : Initial release
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