CVE-2011-0545
Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in adduser.do in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) before 2.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new administrative accounts, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via the userRole parameter.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator Management GUI - HTML Injection
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| symantec | liveupdate_administrator | 2.2.2.9 | |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43820
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8160
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025242
- http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2011-001.txt
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17026
- http://www.osvdb.org/71261
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517109/100/0/threaded
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2011&suid=20110321_00
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0727
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66213
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43820
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8160
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025242
- http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2011-001.txt
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17026
- http://www.osvdb.org/71261
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517109/100/0/threaded
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2011&suid=20110321_00
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0727
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66213
CWEs
CWE-352
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.