Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities on the iSpot 2.0.0.0 R1679, and the ClearSpot 2.0.0.0 R1512 and R1786, with firmware 1.9.9.4 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) execute arbitrary commands via the cmd parameter in an act_cmd_result action to webmain.cgi, (2) enable remote management via an enable_remote_access act_network_set action to webmain.cgi, (3) enable the TELNET service via an ENABLE_TELNET act_set_wimax_etc_config action to webmain.cgi, (4) enable TELNET sessions via a certain act_network_set action to webmain.cgi, or (5) read arbitrary files via the FILE_PATH parameter in an act_file_download action to upgrademain.cgi.
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
| Name |
Vendor |
Start Version |
End Version |
| Ispot_firmware |
Clear |
1.9.9.4 (including) |
1.9.9.4 (including) |
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]
References