Codebeamer Application Lifecycle Management Cross-Site Request Forgery

A CSRF issue was discovered in Intland codeBeamer ALM 10.x through 10.1.SP4. Requests sent to the server that trigger actions do not contain a CSRF token and can therefore be entirely predicted allowing attackers to cause the victim's browser to execute undesired actions in the web application through crafted requests. (2021-06-08, CVE-2020-26516)

The absence of Anti-CSRF tokens may lead to a Cross-Site Request Forgery attack that can result in executing a specific application action as another logged in user, e.g. steal their account by changing their email and password or silently adding a new admin user account when executed from the administrator account.

The attacker may copy one of your web application forms, e.g. email/password change form.

The webpage will contain a form with the exact set of fields as the original application but with input values already provided and the submit button replaced with a Javascript code causing auto-submission. When the page is accessed the form will be immediately submitted and page contents replaced with a valid content or a redirect to your original application.

One of your application users who is already logged in can be then tricked to navigate to such malicious page e.g. by clicking a link in a phishing email, and the pre-populated form content will be submitted to your application like it would be submitted by your user.