CVE-2018-1098 etcd Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)

What is CVE-2018-1098?

CVE-2018-1098 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 3 Apr 2018. 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

A cross-site request forgery flaw was found in etcd 3.3.1 and earlier. An attacker can set up a website that tries to send a POST request to the etcd server and modify a key. Adding a key is done with PUT so it is theoretically safe (can't PUT from an HTML form or such) but POST allows creating in-order keys that an attacker can send.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1098?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including go.etcd.io/etcd/v3. It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Redhat Etcd.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1098?

Upgrade go.etcd.io/etcd/v3 to 3.4.0 or later.

Is CVE-2018-1098 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1098 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1098, GHSA-5gjm-fj42-x983, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1098.