PT-2017-18108 · Getsimple · Getsimple Cms

Tablatronix · Published 2017-04-30 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-8081

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GetSimple CMS version 3.3.13

Description The issue concerns poor cryptographic salt initialization, which can be exploited by a network attacker to escalate privileges to an arbitrary user or conduct CSRF attacks. This is achieved through the calculation of a session cookie or CSRF nonce in the admin/inc/template functions.php file.

Recommendations For GetSimple CMS version 3.3.13, update to a newer version that addresses the poor cryptographic salt initialization issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-338

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-8081

Affected Products

Getsimple Cms

References · 4

• https://github.com/GetSimpleCMS/GetSimpleCMS/issues/1224 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8081 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8081 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8081 · Note