ePO <5.10.0 CP1U2: CSRF Adds Admin User
CVE-2023-5444 Published on November 17, 2023
CSRF in ePO leading to privilege escalation
A Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability in ePolicy Orchestrator prior to 5.10.0 CP1 Update 2 allows a remote low privilege user to successfully add a new user with administrator privileges to the ePO server. This impacts the dashboard area of the user interface. To exploit this the attacker must change the HTTP payload post submission, prior to it reaching the ePO server.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-5444 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low 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-2023-5444 has been classified to as a Session Riding vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-5444
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Affected Versions
Trellix ePolicy Orchestrator Version Prior to 5.10.0 SP1 UP2 is affected by CVE-2023-5444Exploit Probability
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