# CVE-2018-15438: Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

> An attacker can trick users into performing arbitrary actions on the Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance management interface via CSRF.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **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:** 17 Oct 2018
- **Updated:** 26 Nov 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5837-6gwx-c674

## What is CVE-2018-15438?

CVE-2018-15438 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance, published on 17 Oct 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 vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack and perform arbitrary actions on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient CSRF protections for the web-based management interface of the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user of the interface to follow a malicious link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to use a web browser to perform arbitrary actions with the privileges of the user on an affected system.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-15438?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance.

## How do I fix CVE-2018-15438?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-15438 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2018-15438 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-15438 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance

- [CVE-2015-6389](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-6389/): Hardcoded credentials in n/a (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2015-4304](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-4304/): Missing authorization in n/a (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2017-6659](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6659/): Cross-site request forgery in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2015-4306](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-4306/): Auth bypass in n/a (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2019-1662](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-1662/): Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance Software Unauthenticated Access Vulnerability (high 8.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-15438 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2018-15438 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance, published on 17 Oct 2018. 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-2018-15438 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance. 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-2018-15438/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-15438/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15438
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15438
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-15438

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