Fortinet Fortiweb 5.1 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability

Overview

Fortinet Fortiweb prior to version 5.2.0 do not sufficiently verify whether a valid request was intentionally provided by the user, which results in a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. (CWE-352)

Description

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Fortinet Fortiweb prior to version 5.2.0 do not sufficiently verify whether a valid request was intentionally provided by the user. The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability lies in /system/config/adminadd.

Impact

A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to trick an authenticated user into making an unintentional request to the web server via a URL, image load, XMLHttpRequest, etc, which will be treated as an authentic request and may result in information leakage or code execution.

Solution

Apply an Update Fortiweb 5.2.0 has been released to address several CSRF vulnerabilities including this one.

Vendor Information (Learn More)

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Fortinet, Inc.	Affected	20 Nov 2013	06 Dec 2013

If you are a vendor and your product is affected, let us know.

CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

Group	Score	Vector
Base	5.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Temporal	4.5	E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
Environmental	1.3	CDP:L/TD:L/CR:M/IR:M/AR:L

References

• http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-14-013/
• http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html
• http://www.fortinet.com/products/fortiweb/

Credit

Thanks to William Costa for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Jared Allar.

Other Information

• CVE IDs: CVE-2014-3115
• Date Public: 02 5월 2014
• Date First Published: 07 5월 2014
• Date Last Updated: 07 5월 2014
• Document Revision: 12