CVE-2016-6578: CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#865216

CodeLathe FileCloud is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery

Vulnerability Note VU#865216

Original Release Date: 2017-01-13 | Last Revised: 2017-01-13

Overview

CodeLathe FileCloud, version 13.0.0.32841 and earlier, is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF).

Description

CWE-352****: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) - CVE-2016-6578

CodeLathe FileCloud is an “is an Enterprise File Access, Sync and Share solution that runs on-premise.” FileCloud, version 13.0.0.32841 and earlier, contains a global cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. An attacker can perform actions with the same permissions as a victim user, provided the victim has an active session and is induced to trigger the malicious request.

Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to induce an authenticated user into making an unintentional request to the FileCloud server that will be treated as an authentic request.

Solution

Apply an update

The vendor has released version 14.0 to address this vulnerability. Users are encouraged to view the release notes and update to the latest release.

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Group

Score

Vector

Base

6.8

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

Temporal

5.3

E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

Environmental

4.0

CDP:ND/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References****Acknowledgements

Thanks to Stéphane Adamiste for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Joel Land.

Other Information

CVE IDs:

CVE-2016-6578

Date Public:

2017-01-13

Date First Published:

2017-01-13

Date Last Updated:

2017-01-13 14:32 UTC

Document Revision:

7