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TWiki URL Processing Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities

VUPEN ID VUPEN/ADV-2009-1217
CVE ID CVE-2009-1339
 
CWE ID Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
CVSS V2 Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Rated as Low Risk 
Impact Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Authentication Level Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Access Vector Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Release Date 2009-04-30
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Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in TWiki, which could be exploited to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks. This issue is caused due to input validation errors when processing HTTP requests, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions and manipulate certain data (e.g. update pages) by tricking a user into visiting a malicious web page containing a specially crafted "img" tag.

Affected Products

TWiki version 4.3.0 and prior

Solution 

Apply patch :
http://twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2009-1339/TWiki-4.3.0-c-diff-cve-2009-1339.txt

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1217
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2009-1339

Credits 

Vulnerability reported by SteveMilner and Richard Monk (Red Hat).

Changelog 

2009-04-30 : Initial release

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Monthly Statistics 

 

 VUPEN Security Advisories By Criticality: Aug 2010


  Critical Risk

: 0%

  High Risk
: 0%

  Moderate Risk
: 0%

  Low Risk
: 100%

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