Silver Peak VX is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery and cross-site scripting

Overview

Silver Peak VX version 6.2.2.0_47968 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery and cross-site scripting.

Description

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) - CVE-2014-2974

Silver Peak VX version 6.2.2.0_47968 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in /php/user_account.php that allows an unauthenticated user to create a new administrator account.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (‘Cross-site Scripting’) - CVE-2014-2975
Silver Peak VX version 6.2.2.0_47968 also contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in /php/user_account.php that can allow an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML content (including scripts) via the vulnerable query string parameter user_id .

The CVSS score below applies to the CVE-2013-2975 vulnerability.

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Impact

An attacker can conduct a cross-site scripting or cross-site request forgery attack, which could be used for privilege escalation or to inject arbitrary HTML content (including script) into a web page presented to the user.

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Solution

Apply an Update
Silver Peak has provided an update to fix CVE-2014-2975 in Silver Peak VX 6.2.4. CVE-2014-2974 is expected to be addressed “in the next maintenance release” according to the vendor.

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Vendor Information

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Silver Peak Affected

Notified: April 16, 2014 Updated: July 23, 2014

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

We are not aware of further vendor information regarding this vulnerability.

CVSS Metrics

Group	Score	Vector
Base	5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Temporal	4	E:POC/RL:TF/RC:C
Environmental	0	CDP:N/TD:N/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

• <http://www.silver-peak.com/products-solutions/wan-optimization/vx-software&gt;
• <http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html&gt;
• <http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html&gt;

Acknowledgements

Thanks to William Costa for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Chris King.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2014-2974, CVE-2014-2975
Date Public:	2014-07-28 Date First Published: