CVE-2017-16244
Cross-Site Request Forgery exists in OctoberCMS 1.0.426 (aka Build 426) due to improper validation of CSRF tokens for postback handling, allowing an attacker to successfully take over the victim's account.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.98%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Cross-Site Request Forgery exists in OctoberCMS 1.0.426 (aka Build 426) due to improper validation of CSRF tokens for postback handling, allowing an attacker to successfully take over the victim's account. The attack bypasses a protection mechanism involving X-CSRF headers and CSRF tokens via a certain _handler postback variable.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.98% probability · 79th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-352
- Affected
- octobercms/october
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/octobercms/october/commit/4a6e0e1e0e2c3facebc17e0db38c5b4d4cb05bd0Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43106/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/octobercms/october/commit/4a6e0e1e0e2c3facebc17e0db38c5b4d4cb05bd0Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43106/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.