CVE-2008-0272

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the aggregator module in Drupal 4.7.x before 4.7.11 and 5.x before 5.6 allows remote attackers to delete items from a feed as privileged users.

Weakness

The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, use anti-CSRF packages such as the OWASP CSRFGuard. [REF-330]
• Another example is the ESAPI Session Management control, which includes a component for CSRF. [REF-45]
• Use the “double-submitted cookie” method as described by Felten and Zeller:
• When a user visits a site, the site should generate a pseudorandom value and set it as a cookie on the user’s machine. The site should require every form submission to include this value as a form value and also as a cookie value. When a POST request is sent to the site, the request should only be considered valid if the form value and the cookie value are the same.
• Because of the same-origin policy, an attacker cannot read or modify the value stored in the cookie. To successfully submit a form on behalf of the user, the attacker would have to correctly guess the pseudorandom value. If the pseudorandom value is cryptographically strong, this will be prohibitively difficult.
• This technique requires Javascript, so it may not work for browsers that have Javascript disabled. [REF-331]

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/111.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/462.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/467.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/62.html

References

• http://drupal.org/node/208562
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28422
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28486
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27238
• http://www.vbdrupal.org/forum/showthread.php?p=6878
• http://www.vbdrupal.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1349
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0127
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0134
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39617