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Advisory details: gitlab / packagist/october/october/CVE-2017-16244
Advisory ID gitlab/packagist/october/october/CVE-2017-16244
Aliases CVE-2017-16244
GHSA-vm6r-4p4v-232x
Summary Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Cross-Site Request Forgery exists in OctoberCMS 1.0.426 (aka Build 426) due to improper validation of CSRF tokens for postback handling, allowing an attacker to successfully take over the victim's account. The attack bypasses a protection mechanism involving X-CSRF headers and CSRF tokens via a certain _handler postback variable.
Status Published
Exploitability 2.0
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv2 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/october/october/CVE-2017-16244.yml
cvssv3 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/october/october/CVE-2017-16244.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/octobercms/october/commit/4a6e0e1e0e2c3facebc17e0db38c5b4d4cb05bd0
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43106/
CVE-2017-16244 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16244
GHSA-vm6r-4p4v-232x https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vm6r-4p4v-232x
Data source Exploit-DB
Date added Nov. 1, 2017
Description OctoberCMS 1.0.426 (Build 426) - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Ransomware campaign use Unknown
Source publication date Nov. 1, 2017
Exploit type webapps
Platform php
Source update date Nov. 1, 2017

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/october/october/CVE-2017-16244.yml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/october/october/CVE-2017-16244.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

There are no SSVC decisions available.