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

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

- **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:** 26 Oct 2014
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2wjg-893f-qh7w

## 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 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2987?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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:

- eGroupWare 1.8.006 - Multiple Vulnerabilities (exploitdb)

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2008-2041](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2041/): Code injection in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2007-3154](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-3154/): Unspecified vulnerability in Walter Zorn wz_tooltip.js (aka wz_tooltips) before 4.01, as used by eGroupWare before 1.2.107-2 and other packa (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2007-3155](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-3155/): Other in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-22243](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-22243/): EGroupware has SQL Injection in Nextmatch Filter Processing (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2014-2988](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-2988/): Code injection in n/a (high 8.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2014-2987 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2987 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-2014-2987/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-2987/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2987
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2987
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-2987

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-2987/
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