CVE-2014-2987 Cross-site request forgery in n/a

Medium 6.8 Published Updated

Remote attackers can hijack administrator sessions to create admin users or modify settings, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

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
None listed

What is CVE-2014-2987?

CVE-2014-2987 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 26 Oct 2014. 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

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in EGroupware Enterprise Line (EPL) before 1.1.20140505, EGroupware Community Edition before 1.8.007.20140506, and EGroupware before 14.1 beta allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) create an administrator user via an admin.uiaccounts.add_user action to index.php or (2) modify settings via the newsettings parameter in an admin.uiconfig.index action to index.php. NOTE: vector 2 can be used to execute arbitrary PHP code by leveraging CVE-2014-2988.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2987?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Egroupware Egroupware.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2987?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-2987 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2014-2987 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2987 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-2wjg-893f-qh7w.

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