CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-11567
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Mongoose Web Server before 6.9 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that modify Mongoose.conf via a request to __mg_admin?save. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code remotely.
Affected configurations
• cesanta mongoose embedded web server library (<= 6.8)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MONGOOSE-WEB-SERVER-v6.5-CSRF-COMMAND-EXECUTION.txt Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Sep/3 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42614/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MONGOOSE-WEB-SERVER-v6.5-CSRF-COMMAND-EXECUTION.txt Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Sep/3 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42614/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry