CVE-2014-2987

Public Exploit

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in EGroupware Enterprise Line (EPL) before 1.1.20140505, EGroupware Community Edition before 1.8.007.20140506, and EGroupware before 14.1 beta allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) create an administrator user via an admin.uiaccounts.add_user action to index.php or (2) modify settings via the newsettings parameter in an admin.uiconfig.index action to index.php. NOTE: vector 2 can be used to execute arbitrary PHP code by leveraging CVE-2014-2988.

Category

6.8
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 3.68% Top 15%
Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory egroupware.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0221.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:087 vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/58346 third party advisory
http://www.egroupware.org/forum#nabble-td3997580 vendor advisory
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23212 exploit
http://www.egroupware.org/changelog
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532103/100/0/threaded mailing list

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-2987?
CVE-2014-2987 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-2987?
To fix CVE-2014-2987, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-2987 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2014-2987 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~4% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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