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CVE-2007-6420 Detail

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the balancer-manager in mod_proxy_balancer for Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.


Severity

 


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Mandriva (03/12/2008)

Mandriva ships mod_proxy_balancer but will not be issuing updates to correct this flaw as the security risk is quite low due to the fact that is not enabled by default, the at-risk user would have to be authenticated, and successful exploitation would be limited to a denial of service on the web server.

Official Statement from Apache (07/02/2008)

Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9. http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/24/2008)

mod_proxy_balancer is shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Application Stack v2. We do not plan on correcting this issue as it poses a very low security risk: The balancer manager is not enabled by default, the user targeted by the CSRF would need to be authenticated, and the consequences of an exploit would be limited to a web server denial of service.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html Mailing List 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00000.html Broken Link 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2 Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/31026 Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33797 Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/34219 Not Applicable 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-06.xml Third Party Advisory 
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3523 Third Party Advisory 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0966.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486169/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494858/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27236 Patch  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-731-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 Permissions Required 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0320 Permissions Required 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8d63cb8e9100f28a99429b4328e4e7cebce861d5772ac9863ba2ae6f%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f7f95ac1cd9895db2714fa3ebaa0b94d0c6df360f742a40951384a53%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r57608dc51b79102f3952ae06f54d5277b649c86d6533dcd6a7d201f7%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r75cbe9ea3e2114e4271bbeca7aff96117b50c1b6eb7c4772b0337c1f%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7dd6be4dc38148704f2edafb44a8712abaa3a2be120d6c3314d55919%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r84d043c2115176958562133d96d851495d712aa49da155d81f6733be%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9ea3538f229874c80a10af473856a81fbf5f694cd7f471cc679ba70b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc4c53a0d57b2771ecd4b965010580db355e38137c8711311ee1073a8%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdca61ae990660bacb682295f2a09d34612b7bb5f457577fe17f4d064%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfbaf647d52c1cb843e726a0933f156366a806cead84fbd430951591b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8371 Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-6420
NVD Published Date:
01/11/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/26/2024
Source:
MITRE