Vigil@nce - McAfee Network Security Manager: Cross Site Request Forgery of User Management
August 2014 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : http://vigilance.fr/offer
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery in User
Management of McAfee Network Security Manager, in order to change
user accounts.
Impacted products: McAfee NSM
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 25/07/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The McAfee Network Security Manager product offers a web service.
However, the origin of queries is not checked. They can for
example originate from an image included in an HTML document.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery in
User Management of McAfee Network Security Manager, in order to
change user accounts.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN