CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-6319

Improper Access Control

Published: Dec 11, 2014 | Modified: Oct 12, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Outlook Web App (OWA) in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP3, 2010 SP3, and 2013 SP1 and Cumulative Update 6 does not properly validate tokens in requests, which allows remote attackers to spoof the origin of e-mail messages via unspecified vectors, aka Outlook Web App Token Spoofing Vulnerability.

Weakness

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Exchange_server Microsoft 2007-sp3 (including) 2007-sp3 (including)
Exchange_server Microsoft 2010-sp3 (including) 2010-sp3 (including)
Exchange_server Microsoft 2013-cumulative_update_6 (including) 2013-cumulative_update_6 (including)
Exchange_server Microsoft 2013-sp1 (including) 2013-sp1 (including)

Extended Description

Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:

When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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