Cross-site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities in Serenity 3.0.5

Information

Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: Cross-site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities in Serenity 3.0.5
Affected Software: Serenity
Affected Versions: 3.0.5
Homepage: http://serenity.is/
Vulnerability: Cross-site Request Forgery Vulnerability
Severity: Low
Status: Not Fixed
CVE-ID: 2018-14489
CVSS Score (3.0): CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Invicti Advisory Reference: NS-18-017

Technical Details

CSRF

URL: http://serenedemo.azurewebsites.net/services/Administration/User/Create
Note: Attacker can add new User. Attacker need to set Content-type:application/json for exploit it. (Content-type could be set with SWF files ie: https://github.com/sp1d3r/swf_json_csrf/)

CSRF

URL: http://serenedemo.azurewebsites.net/services/Administration/User/Update
Note: Attacker can change password any user. Attacker need to set Content-type:application/json for exploit it. (Content-type could be set with SWF files ie: https://github.com/sp1d3r/swf_json_csrf/)

For more information on Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities read the section Cross-Site Request Forgery.

Advisory Timeline

16th October 2017 – First Contact Attempt 
29th November 2018 – Advisory Released

Credits & Authors

These issues have been discovered by Mustafa Yalçın while testing Invicti Web Application Security Scanner.

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