CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-13793

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Published: Jul 09, 2018 | Modified: Sep 07, 2018
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Multiple Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the HTTP API in ABBYY FlexiCapture before 12 Release 1 Update 7 exist in Web Verification, Web Scanning, Web Capture, Monitoring and Administration, and Login.

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
Flexicapture Abbyy 12.0.1.475 12.0.1.475
Flexicapture Abbyy 12.0.1.428 12.0.1.428
Flexicapture Abbyy 12.0.1.367 12.0.1.367
Flexicapture Abbyy 12.0.1.292 12.0.1.292
Flexicapture Abbyy 12.0.1.282 12.0.1.282
Flexicapture Abbyy 12.0.1.267 12.0.1.267
Flexicapture Abbyy 12.0.1.263 12.0.1.263

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