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Zope Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA24017  
Release Date: 2007-03-22

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Partial Fix

Software:Zope 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-0240 (Secunia mirror)



Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Zope, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks

The vulnerabilities are caused due to Zope allowing administrators to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the request. This can be exploited to e.g. to add users or change user privileges by enticing a logged-in administrator to visit a malicious site.

The vulnerability is reported in all Zope versions up to and including 2.10.2.

Solution:
Apply hotfix:
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix-2007-03-20/announcement/view

NOTE: This hotfix only protects against malicious HTTP GET requests. Exploitation via POST requests is still possible.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix-2007-03-20/announcement/view



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