PT-2010-1703 · Twiki · Twiki

Hanno Böck · Published 2010-09-07 · Updated 2010-11-12 · CVE-2009-4898

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions TWiki versions prior to 4.3.2

Description A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that update pages. This can be achieved through a URL for a save script in the ACTION attribute of a FORM element, in conjunction with a call to the submit method in the onload attribute of a BODY element.

Recommendations For TWiki versions prior to 4.3.2, update to version 4.3.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-4898

Affected Products

Twiki

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4898 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/03/8 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4898 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/02/17 · Note
• http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAuditTokenBasedCsrfFix · Note