CVE-2020-1977 Expedition Migration Tool: Insufficient Cross Site Request Forgery protection.

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories / CVE-2020-1977

CVE-2020-1977 Expedition Migration Tool: Insufficient Cross Site Request Forgery protection.

Severity 7.5 · HIGH

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Scope UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

NVD JSON

Published 2020-02-12

Updated 2020-02-12

Reference MT-1593

Discovered externally

Description

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.

Product Status

Versions	Affected	Unaffected
Expedition 1.1	<= 1.1.51	>= 1.1.52

Severity: HIGH

CVSSv3.1 Base Score: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness Type

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Solution

This issue is fixed in Expedition Migration Tool 1.1.52 and later versions.

Workarounds and Mitigations

To prevent the chance of malicious websites making forged requests to Expedition Migration Tool, you should access the tool exclusively from a web browser and log out after each use.

Acknowledgments

Palo Alto Networks thanks Jimi Sebree of Tenable Research for discovering and responsibly reporting this issue.