Data Center Analytics Framework Cross-Site Request Forgery

A vulnerability in the Cisco Data Center Analytics Framework application could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper CSRF protection by the affected application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user of the affected application to click a malicious link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to submit arbitrary requests and take unauthorized actions on behalf of the user. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvg45114. (2018-02-22, CVE-2018-0146)

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.