Vigil@nce - OpenVPN Access Server: Cross Site Request Forgery of Admin Web Interface
May 2013 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery in Admin Web
Interface of OpenVPN Access Server, in order to force the victim
to perform operations.
– Impacted products: Unix (platform)
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 13/05/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The OpenVPN Access Server product provides a web interface.
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
Admin Web Interface of OpenVPN Access Server, in order to force
the victim to perform operations.
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