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Serendipity Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA17011
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Release Date:
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2005-09-30
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Last Update:
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2006-01-20
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Popularity:
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5,898 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Hijacking
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Serendipity 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-3129
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Description:
Nenad Jovanovic has reported a vulnerability in Serendipity, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability is caused due to the application allowing users to perform certain actions via HTTP POST requests without performing any validity checks to verify the user's request. This can be exploited to change a user's username or password.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.8.4 and prior.
Solution:
Update to version 0.8.5.
http://www.s9y.org/index.php?node=12
Provided and/or discovered by:
Nenad Jovanovic, Secure Systems Lab
Changelog:
2006-01-20: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://blog.s9y.org/archives/69-Serendipity-0.8.5-released.html
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