National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2007-6420)

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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6420

Original release date:01/12/2008

Last revised:03/20/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the balancer-manager in mod_proxy_balancer for Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Apache (07/02/2008): Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9. http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
Official Statement from Mandriva (03/12/2008): Mandriva ships mod_proxy_balancer but will not be issuing updates to correct this flaw as the security risk is quite low due to the fact that is not enabled by default, the at-risk user would have to be authenticated, and successful exploitation would be limited to a denial of service on the web server.
Official Statement from Red Hat (01/24/2008): mod_proxy_balancer is shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Application Stack v2. We do not plan on correcting this issue as it poses a very low security risk: The balancer manager is not enabled by default, the user targeted by the CSRF would need to be authenticated, and the consequences of an exploit would be limited to a web server denial of service.

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External Source: BID

Name: 27236

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27236

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080110 SecurityReason - Apache2 CSRF, XSS, Memory Corruption and Denial of Service Vulnerability

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/486169/100/0/threaded

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-731-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-731-1

External Source: BID