CVE-2014-2987: egroupware Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-2987 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in egroupware. EPSS estimates a 1.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 26-10-2014
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.