National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2043
Original release date:05/01/2008
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in cPanel, possibly 11.18.3 and 11.19.3, allow remote attackers to (1) execute arbitrary code via the command1 parameter to frontend/x2/cron/editcronsimple.html, and perform various administrative actions via (2) frontend/x2/sql/adddb.html, (3) frontend/x2/sql/adduser.html, and (4) frontend/x2/ftp/doaddftp.html.
Description
Additional information can be found at:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30027/
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1401
http://blog.cpanel.net/?p=39
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#584089
Name: VU#584089
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=7
External Source: XF
Name: cpanel-http-csrf(42114)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1401
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30027
