CVE-2013-6357 Cross-site request forgery in n/a
Remote attackers can hijack administrator sessions to manipulate application deployments via CSRF in the Tomcat Manager application.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2013-6357?
CVE-2013-6357 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, published on 13 Nov 2013. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Manager application in Apache Tomcat 5.5.25 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that manipulate application deployment via the POST method, as demonstrated by a /manager/html/undeploy?path= URI. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this report, stating that "the Apache Tomcat Security team has not accepted any reports of CSRF attacks against the Manager application ... as they require a reckless system administrator.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-6357?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Apache Tomcat.
How do I fix CVE-2013-6357?
No fix has been published for CVE-2013-6357 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2013-6357 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-6357 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r22m-cc5w-vgh3.