CVE-2020-1977 is a vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition Migration Tool
Published on February 12, 2020
Expedition Migration Tool: Insufficient Cross Site Request Forgery protection.
Insufficient Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF) protection on Expedition Migration Tool allows remote unauthenticated attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators and to perform actions on the Expedition Migration Tool. This issue affects Expedition Migration Tool 1.1.51 and earlier versions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2020-1977 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Session Riding Vulnerability?
The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. When a web server is designed to receive a request from a client without any mechanism for verifying that it was intentionally sent, then it might be possible for an attacker to trick a client into making an unintentional request to the web server which will be treated as an authentic request. This can be done via a URL, image load, XMLHttpRequest, etc. and can result in exposure of data or unintended code execution.
CVE-2020-1977 has been classified to as a Session Riding vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2020-1977
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Affected Versions
Palo Alto Networks Expedition:- Version 1.1, <= 1.1.51 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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