A vulnerability has been found in Koillection up to 1.6.18. Affected is an unknown function of the file assets/controllers/csrf_protection_controller.js. Such manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. The attack can be executed remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 1.7.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 9ab8562d3f1e953da93fed63f9ee802c7ea26a9a. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component. The vendor explains: I ended up switching to a newer CSRF handling using stateless token.
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.
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]
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