# CVE-2012-3309: Cross-site request forgery in n/a

> Remote attackers can hijack administrator sessions to create new admin accounts if CSRF filtering is disabled in IBM InfoSphere Guardium.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 29 Aug 2012
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4cfx-p6p6-jpvw

## What is CVE-2012-3309?

CVE-2012-3309 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Aug 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the account-creation panel in IBM InfoSphere Guardium 8.2 and earlier, when the CSRF filtering (aka csrf_status) feature is disabled, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create administrative accounts.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3309?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Infosphere Guardium.

## How do I fix CVE-2012-3309?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-3309 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2012-3309 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3309 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2013-0490](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-0490/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2012-3341](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3341/): Cross-site scripting in InfoSphere Guardium (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2012-3336](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3336/): SQL injection in InfoSphere Guardium (medium 6.3)
- [CVE-2012-2204](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-2204/): InfoSphere Guardium aix_ktap module: DoS (medium 5.5)
- [CVE-2012-3337](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3337/): Path traversal in InfoSphere Guardium (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2012-3309 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2012-3309 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Aug 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3309 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3309/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3309/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3309
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3309
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-3309

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