National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1403
Original release date:05/13/2011
Last revised:08/24/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the pieforms implementation in Mahara before 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests to any form, related to inappropriate regeneration of session keys.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
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 disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://launchpad.net/mahara/+milestone/1.3.6
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/771598
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: mahara-unspecified-csrf(67398)
External Source: BID
Name: 47798
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2246
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 44433
Type: Advisory
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE-352)