GHSA-45g2-r339-pjwf CVE-2023-37650
Cockpit CMS Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability
High
Packagist
- Severity
- 8.8 / 10
- High · CVSS 3.1
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.53%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 45.04% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Fix
2.6.0- Upgrade cockpit-hq/cockpit to this version or later
Description
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the Admin portal of Cockpit CMS v2.5.2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary Administrator commands.
Affected versions
Packagist
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| cockpit-hq/cockpit | < 2.6.0 |
2.6.0 |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
cockpit-hq/cockpit Packagist → 2.6.0
- composer
composer require cockpit-hq/cockpit:^2.6.0
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.1 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Weakness
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid [REF-1482]. For example, use anti-CSRF packages such as the OWASP CSRFGuard. [REF-330] Another example is the ESAPI Session Management control, which includes a component for CSRF. [REF-45]
- Implementation: Ensure that the application is free of cross-site scripting issues (CWE-79), because most CSRF defenses can be bypassed using attacker-controlled script.
- Architecture and Design: Generate a unique nonce for each form, place the nonce into the form, and verify the nonce upon receipt of the form. Be sure that the nonce is not predictable (CWE-330). [REF-332]
- Architecture and Design: Identify especially dangerous operations. When the user performs a dangerous operation, send a separate confirmation request to ensure that the user intended to perform that operation.
- Architecture and Design: Use the "double-submitted cookie" method as described by Felten and Zeller: When a user visits a site, the site should generate a pseudorandom value and set it as a cookie on the user's machine. The site should require every form submission to include this value as a form value and also as a cookie value. When a POST request is sent to the site, the request should only be considered valid if the form value and the cookie value are the same. Because of the same-origin policy, an attacker cannot read or modify the value stored in the cookie. To successfully submit a form on behalf of the user, the attacker would have to correctly guess the pseudorandom value. If the pseudorandom value is cryptographically strong, this will be prohibitively difficult. This technique requires Javascript, so it may not work for browsers that have Javascript disabled. [REF-331]
- Architecture and Design: Do not use the GET method for any request that triggers a state change.
- Implementation: Check the HTTP Referer header to see if the request originated from an expected page. This could break legitimate functionality, because users or proxies may have disabled sending the Referer for privacy reasons.
References
Advisories
Packages
Other links
Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| GHSA-ch4j-vcf5-58x5 Cockpit CMS: Stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Set field type's Display template option | Medium | Also affects cockpit-hq/cockpit |
| GHSA-p46p-7pmj-m34f Cockpit is vulnerable to directory traversal | Medium | Also affects cockpit-hq/cockpit |
| GHSA-j2rx-4jg9-79mw Cockpit Vulnerable to Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type | High | Also affects cockpit-hq/cockpit |
| GHSA-fm6c-rhcf-7439 Cockpit is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution | Critical | Also affects cockpit-hq/cockpit |
| GHSA-5pv2-86qj-5jf9 Cockpit has NoSQL Injection Through Content Aggregation Pipelines | Medium | Also affects cockpit-hq/cockpit |
| GHSA-7x5c-vfhj-9628 Cockpit CMS has SQL Injection in MongoLite Aggregation Optimizer via toJsonExtractRaw() | Medium | Also affects cockpit-hq/cockpit |
| GHSA-j4rj-fgcq-wmqp Cockpit - Content Platform vulnerable to XSS through name or email argument names | Medium | Also affects cockpit-hq/cockpit |
| GHSA-wp68-xrfg-xvq4 Cockpit Arbitrary File Upload | High | Also affects cockpit-hq/cockpit |
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